New South Wales Marsupials > NSW Marsupials Index
Some of the most popular species that come up in conversation when talking about Marsupials include the koala and the kangaroos. Of course there are many more (that can be seen throughout this website), including the wallabies and the wombats.
Marsupials are members of the mammalian infraclass Marsupialia and one of the distinctive characteristics that are common to most of the species, is that the young are carried in a pouch. The word marsupial comes from marsupium, a pouch that protects eggs and offspring, or reproductive structures.
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This section is a work in progress…
- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Mammalia
- Clade: Metatheria
- Infraclass: Marsupialia
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