Editing Tyler's mouse opossum (section)

{{short description|South American marsupial of the family Didelphidae}}
{{speciesbox
| name = Tyler's mouse opossum<ref name="iucn status 19 November 2021" />
| status = DD
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| status_ref = <ref name="iucn status 19 November 2021">{{cite iucn |author=Pérez-Hernandez, R. |author2=López Fuster, M. |author3=Ventura, J. |date=2016 |title=''Marmosa tyleriana'' |volume=2016 |page=e.T12816A22174266 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-1.RLTS.T12816A22174266.en |access-date=19 November 2021}}</ref>
| genus = Marmosa
| parent = Marmosa (Marmosa)
| species = tyleriana
| authority = [[George Henry Hamilton Tate|Tate]], 1931
| range_map = Tyler's Mouse Opossum area.png
| range_map_caption = Tyler's mouse opossum range
}}

'''Tyler's mouse opossum''' (''Marmosa tyleriana'') is a [[South America]]n [[marsupial]] of the family [[Didelphidae]].<ref name=msw3>{{MSW3 Didelphimorphia |id = 10400089 |pages = 9–10}}</ref>  It lives in rainforests of the [[Guiana Highlands]] of southern [[Venezuela]] at elevations between 1300 and 2200 m.<ref name="iucn status 19 November 2021" /> The species has only been found on three isolated [[tepui]]s ([[Auyantepui]], [[Cerro Marahuaca|Marahuaca]] and [[Sarisariñama]]).<ref name="iucn status 19 November 2021" /> All three of these locations are in protected areas ([[Canaima National Park|Canaima]], [[Duida-Marahuaca National Park|Duida-Marahuaca]] and [[Jaua-Sarisariñama National Park|Jaua-Sarisariñama]] national parks).

The Latin species name refers to the habitat in which the opossum was first found, a ''[[Ochnaceae|Tyleria]]'' forest. In turn, both the genus ''Tyleria'' and the opossum's common name refer to Sidney F. Tyler, an American historian and photographer who helped finance the 1928-29 expedition of the [[American Museum of Natural History]] to the headwaters of the [[Orinoco]], during which the opossum was discovered.<ref name = "Eponym">{{Cite book
  | last = Beolens | first = Bo |author2=Watkins, Michael |author3=Grayson, Michael
  | title = The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals
  | publisher = [[The Johns Hopkins University Press]]
  | date = 2009-09-28 | location = [[Baltimore]] | page = 421
  | url = http://google.com/books?id=I-kSmWLc6vYC&pg=PA421
  | isbn = 978-0801893049| oclc = 270129903}}</ref>