List of monotremes and marsupials

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The class Mammalia (mammals) is divided into two subclasses based on reproductive techniques: egg-laying mammals (yinotherians or monotremes - see also Australosphenida), and mammals which give live birth (therians). 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]

Subclass Prototheria (the monotremes)

Order
Monotremata
(monotremes, egg-laying mammals)

Subclass Theria

Infraclass Metatheria (marsupials)

Order
Didelphimorphia (American opossums
)

Virginia opossum (Didelphis virginiana)

Order Paucituberculata

Order Microbiotheria (monito del monte)

Order
Notoryctemorphia (marsupial moles
)

Order
marsupial carnivores
)

Thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus)

Order
bilbies
)

Eastern barred bandicoot

Order Diprotodontia (diprotodont marsupials)

Suborder Vombatiformes (wombats and koalas)
Suborder Phalangeriformes (possums and gliders)
Suborder Macropodiformes (kangaroos, wallaroos, wallabies)

See also

References

  1. ^ Boudet Ch. "Planet' Mammiferes". Planet' Mammiferes. 4.1 of 2013/12/23. Retrieved 2016-04-17.