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The cleavage stages of marsupial development are vary among groups and aspects of marsupial early development are not yet fully understood. Marsupials have a short gestation period—typically between 12 and 33 days, [ 38 ] but as low as 10 days in the case of the stripe-faced dunnart and as long as 38 days for the long-nosed potoroo . [ 39 ]
Carnivourous Marsupials are marsupials which have a primary diet of meat. Marsupials whose diet consist of 75% or more meat, can be said to be carnivores.
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.
Red-necked wallaby (Notamacropus rufogriseus) Macropodiformes is a suborder of Australian marsupial mammals. Members of this suborder are called macropodiformes, and include kangaroos, wallabies, bettongs, potoroos, and rat-kangaroos. Macropodiformes is one of three suborders that form the order Diprotodontia, the
The dusky antechinus was described by English naturalist George Robert Waterhouse in 1840, the second antechinus to be described. [3] It was named in honour of the zoologist and artist William Swainson, with the holotype likely being a specimen collected by Swainson's correspondent Thomas Lempriere from the Tasman Peninsula in Tasmania.
The Dasyuridae are a family of marsupials native to Australia and New Guinea, including 71 extant species divided into 17 genera. Many are small and mouse-like or shrew-like, giving some of them the name marsupial mice or marsupial shrews, but the group also includes the cat-sized quolls, as well as the Tasmanian devil. They are found in a wide ...
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.
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 .