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Yapok

Educational resources on Yapok

Yapok [an error occurred while processing this directive] IUCN Profile of the Yapok

Academic web links for the Yapok.


ADW: Chironectes: Pictures: Genus Chironectes. Genus Chironectes (water opossum and yapok). Pictures; Classification. water opossum or yapok Chironectes minimus, ...
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/pictures/Chironectes.html id=spl-1

ADW: Didelphimorphia: Pictures: ...bare-tailed woolly opossum Caluromys philander, water opossum or yapok Chironectes minimus, water opossum or yapok Chironectes minimus. ...
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/pictures/Didelphimorphia.html id=spl-2

The First Australians: ...taken to life in the water. The yapok (Chironectes minimum) takes its name from the river Oyapok in Guyana. It is a striking animal ...
http://cstl-cla.semo.edu/zeller/na36.html id=spl-3

Lecture 07 Marsup. Class.: Chironectes (water opposum or yapok): semi aquatic & carnivorous, S. Mexico to N Argentina. Order Paucituberculata (Shrew oppossums or rat oppossums). ...
http://www.uvm.edu/~jdecher/Lecture06.html id=spl-4

Mammalogy Aug 31 2004: ...long tails, may be prehensile. mouse-like ears c. semi-aquatic opossum. yapok. short fur. webbed hind feet: swims, but also can "walk" underwater. valvular nostrils ...
http://www.bio.georgiasouthern.edu/Bio-home/Pratt/mammwk3.htm id=spl-5

Molecular Expressions Microscopy Primer: Specialized Microscopy ...: The yapok, or water opossum, however, which ranges from Mexico to Argentina, has evolved in such a way that it is best suited to a very different lifestyle ...
http://www.microscopy.fsu.edu/primer/techniques/polarized/gallery/pages/opossumhairsmall.html id=spl-6

11 September 1996: ...species are excluively folivorous (the Caluromyidae), or insectivorous (Marmosa and other mouse opossums [Thylamyinae and Marmosinae]); the yapok, or water ...
http://sevilleta.unm.edu/~lruedas/seponeon.html id=spl-7

Statistics Since Last Sunday: ...proxy-1477.public.svc.webtv.net, 5. 0.04%. xenosaur.excite.com, 5. 0.04%. yapok.excite.com, 5. 0.04%. 212.37.242.179.nas1.ppp.ost.eltele.no, 4. 0.03%. ...
http://www.cs.utk.edu/~lchen/stats/thisweek.html id=spl-8

Access statistics for WWW.Lib.CSUfresno.EDU (July 2001): 1525186 0.0% | casfsbca01.ca.sprintbbd.net 121 0.0% 1 0.0% 5620863 0.1% | sherman.waltham.northernlight.com 121 0.0% 0 0.0% 1697415 0.0% | yapok.excite.com ...
http://www.lib.csufresno.edu/libraryinformation/serverstats/07-2001/sites0701.html id=spl-9







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