Marsupials
Marsupialia
Marsupials are any members of the mammalian infraclass Marsupialia. All extant marsupials are endemic to Australasia and the Americas. A distinctive characteristic common to these species is that most of the young are carried in a pouch. Well-known marsupials include kangaroos, wallabies, koalas, possums, opossums, wombats, and Tasmanian devils. Some lesser-known marsupials are the potoroo and the quokka.
7 branches of this group, most-observed first · about 402 known species
Kangaroos, Possums, Wombats, and Allies
orderDiprotodontia
Opossums
orderDidelphimorphia
Carnivorous Marsupials
orderDasyuromorphia
Bandicoots and Bilbies
orderPeramelemorphia
Microbiotheres
orderMicrobiotheria
Shrew Opossums
orderPaucituberculata
Marsupial Moles
orderNotoryctemorphia
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 848319.