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Marsupialia   Listen
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Marsupialia  n. pl.  (Zool.) A subclass of Mammalia, including nearly all the mammals of Australia and the adjacent islands, together with the opossums of America. They differ from ordinary mammals in having the corpus callosum very small, in being implacental, and in having their young born while very immature. The female generally carries the young for some time after birth in an external pouch, or marsupium. Called also Marsupiata.






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"Marsupialia" Quotes from Famous Books



... Amphitherium. By clearing away the matrix from the specimen of Amphitherium Prevostii here represented (Figure 344), Professor Owen ascertained that the angular process (c) bent inward in a slighter degree than in any of the known marsupialia; in short, the inflection does not exceed that of the mole or hedgehog. This fact made him doubt whether the Amphitherium might not be an insectivorous placental, although it offered some points of approximation ...
— The Student's Elements of Geology • Sir Charles Lyell



Words linked to "Marsupialia" :   family Peramelidae, Caenolestidae, family Didelphidae, pouched mammal, order Marsupialia, Macropodidae, animal order, family Dasyurinae, Notoryctidae, Phalangeridae, family Caenolestidae, Didelphidae



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