Marsupialia
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See also: marsupialia
Translingual
Etymology
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
Marsupialia
- A taxonomic infraclass within the subclass Theria – marsupials.
Synonyms
- (infraclass): Metatheria
Hypernyms
- (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
- (infraclass): Dasyuromorphia, Didelphimorphia, Diprotodontia, Microbiotheria, Notoryctemorphia, Paucituberculata, Peramelemorphia, Sparassodonta, Yalkaparidontia - orders
References
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
