The taxonomic family of small to medium-sized marsupial mammals including opossums and related species native mainly to the Americas.
From 'Didelphis' (the primary genus) with the Latin family suffix '-idae,' the standard taxonomic ending for animal families in scientific classification.
The '-idae' ending immediately signals to scientists which rank you're talking about—it's like a linguistic barcode that tells you 'this is a family-level category'—making taxonomy universally readable across languages!
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