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List of adaptive radiated marsupials by form

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This is a list of adaptive radiated marsupials by form; they are adaptively radiated marsupial species equivalent to the many niche-types of non-marsupial mammals. Many of the surviving species are from Australia. There are unique types, for example the extinct genus Nototherium, a 'rhinoceros-type'.Wilson, Eisner, Briggs, Dickerson, Metzenberg, O'Brien, Susman, & Boggs. Life on Earth, Chapter: Biogeography, Graphic: Adaptive Radiation of Marsupials, p. 854-855.

The new world has the common opossum, also a unique form.Wilson, Eisner, Briggs, Dickerson, Metzenberg, O'Brien, Susman, & Boggs. Life on Earth, Chapter: Biogeography, Graphic: Adaptive Radiation of Marsupials, p. 854-855.

Even before the mid-19th century and Charles Darwin's time, biogeographers understood speciation and animal niches. A supreme example that became known to Darwin as sailing ships traveled the world is the New Zealand flightless, ground-dwelling, worm-eating kiwi, a bird, but a species in a mammal-niche.

Anteater-like

1 genus–(monotypic)
(2 subspecies)

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colspan="5" align="center" |Anteater-like marsupials
Taxa

! Presence

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Marsupial:
(anteater-like)

  1. M. fasciatus
    (2 subspecies)

| Western Australia
(2 subspecies)

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File:Numbat.jpg, also called0 the banded anteater]]

Cat-like

1 genus–(6 species)

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colspan="5" align="center" |Cat-like marsupials
Taxa

! Presence

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Marsupial:
(cat-like)

  1. D. albopunctatus
  2. D. geoffroii
  3. D. hallucatus
  4. D. maculatus
  5. D. spartacus
  6. D. viverrinus

| Australia, New Guinea

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File:Dasyurus maculatus.jpg]]

Groundhog-like

6 genera
2 surviving genera

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colspan="5" align="center" |Groundhog-like marsupials
Taxa

! Presence

! Notes

! Images

Marsupial:
(groundhog-like)

  1. 6 genera

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File:Vombatus ursinus -Maria Island National Park.jpg]]

Mole-like

1 genus–(2 species)

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colspan="5" align="center" |Mole-like marsupials
Taxa

! Presence

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Marsupial:
(mole-like)

  1. N. caurinus
  2. N. typhlops

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File:Kret workowaty.jpg]]

Rhinoceros-like

1 genus

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colspan="5" align="center" |Rhinoceros-like marsupials
Taxa

! Presence

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Marsupial:
(rhinoceros-like)

| Extinct

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File:Nothotherium mitchelli.jpg]]

Panther-like

6 genera

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colspan="5" align="center" |Panther-like marsupials
Taxa

! Presence

! Notes

! Images

Marsupial:
(panther-like)

  1. †Priscileo pitikantensis (Upper Oligocene)
  2. †Priscileo roskellyae (Middle Miocene)

:Subfamily Wakaleoninae

:Genus †Wakaleo

  1. †Wakaleo alcootaensis (Upper Miocene)
  2. †Wakaleo oldfieldi (Lower—Upper Miocene)
  3. †Wakaleo vanderleueri (Middle—Upper Miocene)

:Subfamily Thylacoleoninae

:Genus †Thylacoleo

  1. †Thylacoleo carnifex (Pleistocene)
  2. †Thylacoleo crassidentatus (Pliocene)
  3. †Thylacoleo hilli (Pliocene)

|Extinct

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File:Thylacoleo BW.jpg]]

Flying Squirrel-like

1 genus–(6 species)

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colspan="5" align="center" |Flying Squirrel-like marsupials
Taxa

! Presence

! Notes

! Images

Marsupial:
(flying squirrel-like)

  1. P. abidi
  2. P. australis
  3. P. biacensis
  4. P. breviceps
  5. P. gracilis
  6. P. norfolcensis

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File:Sugies03 hp.jpg]]

Canine-like

1 genus–(1 species)

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colspan="5" align="center" |canine-like marsupials
Taxa

! Presence

! Notes

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Marsupial:
(canine-like)

  1. T. cynocephalus

| Extinct

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File:Thylacinus.jpg, also called Tasmanian wolf or tiger]]

Hyena-like

1 genus–(1 species)

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colspan="5" align="center" |Hyena-like marsupials
Taxa

! Presence

! Notes

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Marsupial:
(hyena-like)

  1. S. harrisii

| Extirpated
from mainland
(Tasmania only)

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File:Tasdevil large.jpg]]

Deer-like

Unique: opossum-like

? species

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colspan="5" align="center" |Unique—Opossum-like marsupials
Taxa

! Presence

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Marsupial:
(opossum-like)

  1. Many genera

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File:Opossum 2.jpg]]

See also

{{Portal|Evolutionary biology|Australia}}

References

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