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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 ...
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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 .
This list of fictional marsupials is subsidiary to the list of fictional animals and is a collection of various notable marsupial characters that appear in various works of fiction. It is limited to well-referenced examples in literature , film , television , comics , animation , video games and legends .
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.
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.
Analysis of retrotransposon insertion sites in the nuclear DNA of a variety of marsupials has shown that the South American monito del monte's lineage is the most basal of the superorder. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The Australian australidelphians form a clade , for which the name Euaustralidelphia ("true Australidelphia") has been proposed (the branching ...
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