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Kangaroo joey inside the pouch Female eastern grey kangaroo with mature joey in pouch. The pouch is a distinguishing feature of female marsupials, monotremes [1] [2] [3] (and rarely in the males as in the yapok [4] and the extinct thylacine); the name marsupial is derived from the Latin marsupium, meaning "pouch".
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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. [1]
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 .
The Phalangeridae are a family of mostly nocturnal marsupials native to Australia, New Guinea, and Eastern Indonesia, including the cuscuses, brushtail possums, and their close relatives. Considered a type of possum , most species are arboreal , and they inhabit a wide range of forest habitats from alpine woodland to eucalypt forest and ...
A rare marsupial joey is exploring life outside its mother’s pouch for the first time at a North Carolina zoo. The North Carolina Zoo, located in Asheboro, welcomed a new healthy bettong joey to ...
Similarly, many species lack a full marsupial pouch, instead having a simple fold of skin surrounding the teats to provide some protection to the developing young. The dentition of dasyurids is also considered primitive, and differs from that of other marsupials, with a dental formula of: 4.1.2-3.4 3.1.2-3.4. Their dentition is similar to many ...