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Chironectes variegatus
Yapock Ya"pock (?; 277), n. [Probably from the river Oyapok, between French Guiana and Brazil.] (Zo["o]l.) A South American aquatic opossum (Chironectes variegatus) found in Guiana and Brazil. Its hind feet are webbed, and its fore feet do not have an opposable thumb for climbing. Called also water opossum. [Written also yapack.]
Chironectes variegatus
Note: Several related species are found in South America. The water opossum of Brazil (Chironectes variegatus), which has the hind feet, webbed, is provided with a marsupial pouch and with cheek pouches. It is called also yapock. Opossum mouse. (Zo["o]l.) See Flying mouse, under Flying. Opossum shrimp (Zo["o]l.), any schizopod crustacean of the genus Mysis and allied genera. See Schizopoda.

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- Argentina.[citation needed] Chironectes minimus argyrodytes Chironectes minimus langsdorffi Chironectes minimus minimus Chironectes minimus panamensis Pérez-Hernandez...
- opossum (Metachirus nudicaudatus) Tribe Didelphini Genus Chironectes Water opossum or yapok (Chironectes minimus) Genus Lutreolina †Lutreolina biforata (Ameghino...
- Antennarius nitidus Bennett, 1827 Chironectes nesogallicus Valenciennes, 1837 Antennarius nesogallicus (Valenciennes, 1837) Chironectes pictus Valenciennes, 1837...
- by Pierre André Latreille, also in 1804. The next available name was Chironectes unipennis which was coined by Georges Cuvier in 1817. In 1878 the American...
- Nogueira, José Carlos, et al. "Morphology of the male genital system of Chironectes minimus and comparison to other didelphid marsupials." Journal of mammalogy...
- Shaw, 1794 Lophius chironectes Latreille, 1804 Antennarius chironectes (Latreille, 1804) Chironectes verus Cloquet, 1817 Chironectes leprosus Eydoux &...
- freckled frogfish, is a species of frogfish originally classified as Chironectes coccineus and Antennarius coccineus. It lives within tropical waters...
- Indo-Pacific region. Lophiocharon trisignatus was first formally described as Chironectes trisignatus by the Scottish naval surgeon, Arctic explorer and naturalist...
- de Castelnau formally described this fish in 1872, giving it the name Chironectes filamentosus, but it was later transferred to the genus Rhycherus, making...
- Pacific Oceans. The spotfin frogfish was first formally described as Chironectes nummifer by the French zoologist Georges Cuvier with its type locality...