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The class Mammalia ( mammals) is divided into two subclasses based on reproductive techniques: egg-laying mammals ( yinotherians or monotremes - see also Australosphenida), and mammals which give live birth ( therians). The latter subclass is divided into two infraclasses: pouched mammals ( metatherians or marsupials), and placental mammals ( eutherians, for which see List of placental mammals). Classification updated from Wilson and Reeder's "Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference" using the "Planet Mammifères" website. [1]

Subclass Prototheria (the monotremes)

Order Monotremata (monotremes, egg-laying mammals)

Subclass Theria

Infraclass Metatheria (marsupials)

Order Didelphimorphia (American opossums)

Virginia opossum (Didelphis virginiana)

Order Paucituberculata

Order Microbiotheria (monito del monte)

Order Notoryctemorphia ( marsupial moles)

Order Dasyuromorphia ( marsupial carnivores)

Thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus)

Order Peramelemorphia ( bandicoots and bilbies)

Eastern barred bandicoot

Order Diprotodontia (diprotodont marsupials)

Suborder Vombatiformes (wombats and koalas)
Suborder Phalangeriformes (possums and gliders)
Suborder Macropodiformes (kangaroos, wallaroos, wallabies)

See also

References

  1. ^ Boudet Ch. "Planet' Mammiferes". Planet' Mammiferes. 4.1 of 2013/12/23. Retrieved 2016-04-17.