1794    G. Shaw  5  				Didelphis Pygmaea. The Pygmy Opossum..(exclusive of its diminutive size, not exceeding that of a common domestic mouse) forms as it were a kind of connecting link between the genera of Didelphis and Sciurus.
1829     I.  xliv. 241  				Among some dead wood near the stream Mr Frankland caught a pigmy oppossum.