Opossums

It lives from the north-eastern Mexico to Bolivia (reaching the coast of the South Pacific Ocean to the central coast of Peru), including Trinidad and Tobago and the Windwards in the Caribbean.

Is found from southern Canada to northern Costa Rica (making it the northernmost marsupial in the world).

Native to South America. It is found in Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay.

It inhabits open areas, mountains, and deciduous forests and are commonly found in Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, Bolivia, Brazil, the Andes, and humid forests of Guyana, Suriname, and southern Venezuela.

Native to South America.  It is found in Brazil, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana.

Native to South America. It is found in the Andes Mountains, ranging from Venezuela to Bolivia.

It is endemic to a small region in the Chaco of Formosa Province, northern Argentina.

It is found in Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, and Peru. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests at elevations up to 1,000 m.

This semi-aquatic creature is found in and near freshwater streams and lakes from Mexico through Central and South America to Argentina.

Endemic to eastern Brazil. Its habitat is the caatinga and cerrado.

It is native to Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay. Its habitat is seasonally flooded grasslands and forests in and near the Gran Chaco.

It is native to Bolivia and Peru, where it occurs in tropical elfin forest habitat.

It is found only in eastern Peru, central and northern Bolivia, and west-central Brazil.

It is found in Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Suriname.

Is found only in Brazil, being endemic to the south-eastern parts of the country, from Espirito Santo to Rio Grande do Sul.

It is native to Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Paraguay, and Uruguay. Found in evergreen and gallery forests.

It is found only in southern Argentina. There are two areas in the Patagonian steppe where these animals are often found: the province of La Pampa and Choele Choel (northern Rio Negro Province).

It is distributed in Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, Uruguay, Paraguay, Colombia and Guyana. It generally lives near water and is active at night, dawn or dusk.

It ranges from south-central Bolivia south to northern Argentina, where it is restricted to the Yungas region just east of the Andes. It has being found primarily in lowland savanna grasslands.

It is found in Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, eastern Mexico as far north as Tamaulipas, Nicaragua, and western Panama at elevations from sea level up to 3000 m; most commonly, it is found below 1800 m.

Its range includes Colombia, Mexico, Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil, eastern Ecuador, eastern Peru, and eastern Bolivia.

It has been found in Bolivia, French Guinea, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru and Suriname in lowland tropical rainforest at altitudes from 100 to 1,000 m.

Its range includes eastern Ecuador and Peru.

It is found in Colombia and Venezuela.

It is found in Belize, Colombia, Ecuador, Grenada, Honduras, Panama, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela.

It is found in Colombia, Ecuador, and Panama.

It is found in Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, and western Colombia (Nariño, Valle del Cauca).

It was known from only two areas of montane forest on the eastern slopes of the Andes in Peru, at altitudes from 300 to 2700 m.

It is found in the regions of eastern Ecuador, southeastern Colombia, northeastern Peru, and sporadically around northern Colombia and western Venezuela. It prefers moist lowland or mountainous tropical forest at altitudes of about 50–1100 m.

It is arboreal and nocturnal, inhabiting forests from Belize to northern Colombia.

It is found across northern Bolivia, in the Brazilian states of Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso do Sul, and in northern Argentina as far south as Tucumán Province. Across this region, it inhabits moist tropical forests, often near the boundary with drier habitats, and has been found from near sea level to montane forests as high as 1,000 m elevation.

Its range includes central Colombia, Venezuela, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, eastern Peru, northern Bolivia, and northern Brazil. It generally lives in tropical, humid forest below 1,200 m elevation.

It is native to Atlantic coastal forests of Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina. The species lives in both primary and secondary forest, including forest fragments within grassland.

It is native to the western slopes of the Andes in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, where it lives at altitudes from sea level to 1,500 m.

It is native to southern Peru, Bolivia, Brazil (Mato Grosso do Sul), Paraguay, and north-western Argentina.

It is native to southern Colombia, eastern Ecuador, Peru, and western Brazil.

It is found in western Ecuador and north-western Peru.

It is native to Mexico, mainly from southern Sonora state, in the north, south to Oaxaca, with populations also found on the Islas Marias and in central Yucatan. It has been reported up to elevations of 2,100 m.

It is native to Mexico, specifically the Yucatan and Campeche regions.

It is native to Mexico, specifically the Marías Islands in the state of Nayarit.

It is native to Mexico, ranging from Jalisco east to Puebla and south to Oaxaca; its eastern and western limits are uncertain.

It is native to Mexico, ranging from Sonora to Chiapas east to Zacatecas; its northern and southern limits are uncertain.

It is  native to Brazil, Peru, and Bolivia.

It is found in northern Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago.

It is native to Colombia, west of the Magdalena River, extending to the northern-west terminus of the Western Andes Range.

It is found in Colombia, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela.

It is native to Colombia, specifically the Central Andes in Antioquia. It has been reported at elevations of 1,400–1,950 m.

It is endemic to eastern Brazil and has been reported at elevations of up to 800 m.

It is known only from the valley of the Chanchamayu in Peru (a range that includes Junín Region) where it lives in Andean montane forests at elevations of 1,460–2,200 m.

It is endemic to Colombia, found from east of the Magdalena River to the western slopes of the Western Andes. It occurs at elevations of 100–1,940 m.

It is native to Brazil, found south of the Amazon River and west of the Xingu River.

It is found in Bolivia, Brazil south of Amazon River, eastern Ecuador and Peru. It occurs at elevations 300–1,500 m.

It inhabits Chiquitania dry forest, a transitional zone between the Cerrado savannah and Amazon rainforest in central and eastern Bolivia and western Brazil.

It occurs in French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, and adjacent Venezuela and Brazil. It is found in moist primary tropical rainforest at elevations up to 2,000 m.

It is found in moist montane forest in the Atlantic Forest region of southeastern Brazil, including the states of Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and Paraná. It occurs at elevations above 800 m.

It is found in northern Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname and south-eastern Venezuela. It occurs at elevations of 0–500 m.

It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru and Venezuela.

It is found in Colombia, eastern Ecuador, eastern Panama, northern Peru, and south-eastern Venezuela. It is habitat consists of different types of forests at elevations up to 2,200 m.

It is endemic to Atlantic Forest ecoregions of coastal Brazil.

It inhabits the montane forests on the eastern slopes of the Andes Mountains in Peru.

It is found in Brazil, from the coastal Espírito Santo to Rio Grande do Sul.

It is found in central and southern Guyana, and in Brazil north of the Amazon River.

It is found in Bolivia, Brazil and Peru, where it inhabits the Amazon rainforest.

It is found in north-eastern Colombia and north-western Venezuela at altitudes from sea level to 2,250 m.

It is found in Bolivia, Brazil. French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname and Venezuela. It occurs at elevations 95–1,080 m.

It is found in south-eastern Brazil, southern Paraguay, northern and eastern Argentina, and Uruguay.

It is found generally south of the Amazon River, in southern, central, and western Brazil. It is also found in eastern Bolivia, northern Paraguay, and in Formosa Province in northern Argentina.

It is found south of the Amazon River from eastern Peru, through Bolivia, to central Brazil.

It is found in northern Argentina, Bolivia, south-central Brazil, and northern Paraguay. It occurs at elevations of 200–1,700 m.

It is found on the eastern slopes of the Andes in western Bolivia and south-eastern Peru. It occurs at elevations of 1,900–3,200 m.

It is found in south-eastern Brazil, in the Atlantic Forest, from Espírito Santo and Minas Gerais to São Paulo.

It is known only from Manú National Park, Peru, where it inhabits the Amazon rainforest.

It lives in the lowland rainforests along the south bank of the Brazilian Amazon.

It is found in north-eastern Argentina and south-eastern Brazil, from Espírito Santo to Santa Catarina. It occurs at elevations below 1,080 m.

It is found in French Guiana and northern Brazil.

It is found in various forested habitats in Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, and northern Brazil.

It is found in southern Mexico and from southern Nicaragua to Venezuela, Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, and northern Argentina. It occurs at elevations of 0–2,100 m.

It is found in the Eastern Andes of Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia, Brazil, Peru, Colombia, and Venezuela.

It is found in western Brazil and east-central Peru.

It is found in Panama, the Pacific lowlands of Colombia, and eastern Ecuador.

It is found in Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, and northern Brazil, at altitudes from sea level to 1,600 m.

It is known from Brazil (Acre, Amazonas, and Pará), eastern Peru, and eastern Ecuador.

It is found in southern Brazil, north-eastern Argentina, and eastern Paraguay.

It is found in Belize, El Salvador, and southern Mexico.

It is found in Brazil, south-eastern Colombia, eastern Ecuador, northern and southern Peru, and south-central Venezuela.

It occurs in humid forests of western Brazil and south-eastern Peru, and probably in northern Bolivia.

It is found in northern Bolivia, southern Colombia, eastern Ecuador, eastern Peru, and Brazil (southern Amazonas, Pará, southern Mato Grosso). It occurs at elevations of up to 5,000 m.

It is found from southern Mexico to western Ecuador and Colombia, at altitudes ranging from sea level to 2,600 m.

The range lies to the east of the Andes – from Bolivia, central Colombia, eastern Ecuador, Peru and western and southern Venezuela to northeastern Argentina, western, central and southern Brazil, eastern and southern Paraguay. It occurs at elevations of up to 500 m.

It is found from northern Venezuela eastward to northeastern and south-central Brazil, including Guyana, French Guiana, Suriname, Margarita Island, and Trinidad. It occurs at elevations of 1,200–1,800 m.

It is endemic to central and north-eastern Brazil, where it is found in the cerrado and caatinga at elevations from 300 to 1,100 m.

It is endemic to central Chile, found at elevations ranging from sea level to 1,000 m.

It is found in southern Peru and south-western Bolivia, in the northernmost regions of Chile, and along the eastern slopes of the Andes mountains in western and central Argentina. It occurs at elevations of up to 4,500 m.

It is endemic to the Argentine portion of Gran Chaco.

It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, and Paraguay, in chaco and Andean foothill habitats.

It is found in forested areas of southern Brazil and eastern Paraguay.

It is found in the transitional and humid forests of northern Argentina and southern Bolivia. It occurs at elevations of 250–4,000 m.

It is found in northeastern Argentina (Entre Ríos and Corrientes, south of the Ibera Wetlands).

It is found in south-central and south-eastern Brazil (Goiás, Minas Gerais, and São Paulo).