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Marsupialia

noun

Coextensive with the subclass Metatheria. Synonym: order Marsupialia.

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"Marsupialia" Quotes from Famous Books

... beaver, six hundred and seventeen; carnivora, or flesh-eaters, four hundred and forty-six; cheiroptera, or bats, three hundred and twenty-eight; quadrumana, or monkeys, two hundred and twenty-one; and marsupialia, or pouched mammals, like the opossum and kangaroo, one hundred and thirty-seven. If we leave out the cetacea, that live in the water, and the cud-chewers, which are the clean beasts, we have one thousand ...

— The Deluge in the Light of Modern Science - A Discourse • William Denton

... forms of mammalia are specified, and we have no knowledge as to the varieties included in these three forms. Nor is there here any intimation that it was the first creation of such animals. The greater part of the earlier fossils belong to the Marsupialia and Mouotremata, and we have no reason to believe that these classes have existed in historic times in Europe, Asia, or Africa. They are now confined (with the exception of the opossums, which are American) to Australia. They were therefore entirely unknown to the Jews, and in consequence ...

— The Story of Creation as told by Theology and by Science • T. S. Ackland

Words linked to "Marsupialia" : family Notoryctidae, family Vombatidae, Caenolestidae, Peramelidae, pouched mammal, subclass Metatheria, Metatheria, Vombatidae, family Peramelidae, Notoryctidae, animal order, Phalangeridae, marsupial, family Dasyurinae, family Didelphidae, Dasyuridae, Macropodidae, family Macropodidae, family Phalangeridae, family Dasyuridae, Didelphidae, family Caenolestidae