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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.
As marsupials, female opossums have ... The Virginia opossum is the only species found in the United States and Canada. It is often simply referred to as an opossum, ...
In the Americas, marsupials are found throughout South America, excluding the central/southern Andes and parts of Patagonia; and through Central America and south-central Mexico, with a single species (the Virginia opossum Didelphis virginiana) widespread in the eastern United States and along the Pacific coast.
Opossums probably diverged from the basic South American marsupials in the late Cretaceous or early Paleocene. They are small to medium-sized marsupials, about the size of a large house cat, with a long snout and prehensile tail. Family: Didelphidae (American opossums) Subfamily: Didelphinae. Virginia opossum, D. virginiana [n 1] [n 2] LC
Like all female marsupials, the female's reproductive system is bifid, with two lateral vaginae, uteri, and ovaries. [46] The male's penis is also bifid, with two heads, and as is common in New World marsupials, the sperm pair up in the testes and only separate as they come close to the egg. [46] Males have three pairs of Cowper's glands. [47]
Virginia opossum (Didelphis virginiana). Didelphimorphia is an order of marsupial mammals.Members of this order are called didelphimorphs, or opossums.They are primarily found in South America, though some are found in Central America and Mexico and one, the Virginia opossum, ranges into the United States and Canada.
This is a list of North American mammals.It includes all mammals currently found in the United States, St. Pierre and Miquelon, Canada, Greenland, Bermuda, Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean region, whether resident or as migrants.
A white-tailed deer, the state animal of Pennsylvania, in Berwyn, Pennsylvania [1]. This list of mammals in Pennsylvania consists of 66 species currently believed to occur wild in the state.