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The cleavage stages of marsupial development are very variable between groups and aspects of marsupial early development are not yet fully understood. An infant marsupial is known as a joey . Marsupials have a very short gestation period—usually between 12.5 and 33 days, [ 41 ] but as low as 10.7 days in the case of the stripe-faced dunnart ...
The latter subclass is divided into two infraclasses: pouched mammals (metatherians or marsupials), and placental mammals (eutherians, for which see List of placental mammals). Classification updated from Wilson and Reeder's "Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference" using the "Planet Mammifères" website.
All extant marsupials are endemic to Australasia and the Americas. A distinctive characteristic common to most of these species is that the young are carried in a pouch . Well-known marsupials include kangaroos , wallabies , koalas , opossums , wombats , Tasmanian devils , and the extinct thylacine .
Potoroidae is a family of marsupials, small Australian animals known as bettongs, potoroos, and rat-kangaroos. All are rabbit-sized, brown, jumping marsupials and resemble a large rodent or a very small wallaby .
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The maximum litter size is, therefore, eight, since marsupial young are attached to the teat during development, although two to four young per litter is a more typical number. The gestation period of peramelids is the shortest among mammals, at just 12.5 days, the young are weaned around two months of age, and reach sexual maturity at just ...
Common name Scientific name IUCN Red List status Trend Global population estimate (year) Population notes Range Image Common wombat: Vombatus ursinus: LC >915,090 (2020) [1]: Only includes subpopulations from three islands (Maria, Flinders, and Tasmania) of two subspecies (V. u. ursinus and V. u. tasmaniensis).
Marsupials of North America — marsupial mammals of North America, within the Didelphimorphia order that is endemic to the Americas. Pages in category "Marsupials of North America" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.