Marsupialia
See also: marsupialia
Translingual edit
Etymology edit
New Latin, from Latin marsūpium, marsuppium (“pouch, purse”), from Ancient Greek μαρσύπιον (marsúpion) or μαρσύππιον (marsúppion), variants of μαρσίππιον (marsíppion), diminutive of μάρσιππος (mársippos, “bag, pouch”), + -alia.
Proper noun edit
Marsupialia
- A taxonomic infraclass within the subclass Theria – marsupials.
Synonyms edit
- (infraclass): Metatheria
Hypernyms edit
- (infraclass): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; Tetrapoda – superclass; Mammalia – class; Trechnotheria - subclass; Zatheria - infraclass; Theria - supercohort
Hyponyms edit
- (infraclass): Dasyuromorphia, Didelphimorphia, Diprotodontia, Microbiotheria, Notoryctemorphia, Paucituberculata, Peramelemorphia, Sparassodonta, Yalkaparidontia - orders
References edit
Marsupial on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Marsupialia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies 
Category:Marsupialia on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons - Marsupialia at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- Metaheria at Encyclopedia of Life
- Metatheria at National Center for Biotechnology Information
- Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. PMID 25923521, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248
