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Microbiotheria is an
australidelphian marsupial order that encomp****es two families,
Microbiotheriidae and Woodburnodontidae, and is
represented by only...
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shrew opossums Superorder Australidelphia (Australian marsupials)
Order Microbiotheria (one
extant species)
Family Microbiotheriidae:
monitos del
monte Order...
- (Argentina and Chile). It is the only
extant species in the
ancient order Microbiotheria, and the sole New
World representative of the
superorder Australidelphia...
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reached Australia via
Antarctica in a
single dispersal event after Microbiotheria split off.
Phylogeny of
living Australidelphia based on the work of...
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species of
marsupials (orders Didelphimorphia, Paucituberculata, and
Microbiotheria) are also carnivorous, as were some
extinct members of the
order Diprotodontia...
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class Mammalia (mammals) is
divided into two
subclasses based on
reproductive techniques: egg-laying
mammals (yinotherians or
monotremes - see also...
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proposed as the name for the
Australian marsupials (Australidelphia
minus Microbiotheria, of
which Dromiciops is the only survivor),
which in all probability...
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Microbiotheria...
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Extinct in the wild (EW): 2
species Critically endangered (CR): 203
species Endangered (EN): 505
species Vulnerable (VU): 536
species Near threatened...
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There are
currently 1,258 genera, 161 families, 27 orders, and
around 5,937
recognized living species of mammal.
Mammalian taxonomy is in
constant flux...
