Common opossum, southern or black-eared opossum, gamba or possum, Didelphis marsupialis. Great oriental opossum, Philander maximus orientalis. After an illustration by Albertus Seba. Copperplate engraving by James Heath from George Shaw’s General Zoology: Mammalia, G. Kearsley, Fleet Street, London, 1800.

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