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Marsupialia   Listen
proper noun
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



... convoluted and constricted into a series of chambers that differ in different groups of Cetacea. In the Sirenia the stomach is divided by a constriction into a cardiac and a pyloric portion, and the latter has a pair of caeca. In most of the Marsupialia the stomach is relatively simple, forming a globular sac with the oesophageal and pyloric apertures closely approximated; in the kangaroos, on the other hand, the stomach is divided into a relatively small, caecal cardiac portion and an enormously ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia

... found earlier, such may nevertheless have existed: the defect may be in our not having found them; but, other things considered, the probability is that heretofore there were no mammifers. It is an interesting circumstance that the first mammifers found should have belonged to the marsupialia, when the place of that order in the scale of creation is considered. In the imperfect structure of their brain, deficient in the organs connecting the two hemispheres—and in the mode of gestation, which is only in small part uterine—this ...
— Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation • Robert Chambers



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



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