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Ameridelphia

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Opossum

	Wikipedia: Opossum
		The word opossum (usually pronounced without the leading 'O', or with only a very slight schwa) refers either to the Virginia Opossum in particular, or more generally to any of the other marsupials of magnorder Ameridelphia.
		The Virginia Opossum is noted for its reaction to threat, which is to feign death.
		Though opossum is often pronounced, and even spelled possum, the latter word actually refers to various distantly related but broadly similar animals of magnorder Australidelphia, that are native to Australasia and are an introduced pest in New Zealand.
	www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/o/op/opossum.html (127 words)

	magnorder
		Ameridelphia is the magnorder that includes all marsupials living in the Americas except for Dromiciops.
		Australidelphia is the magnorder that contains roughly three-quarters of all marsupials, including all those native to Australasia and a single species from South America.
		About two-thirds of Australian marsupials (magnorder Australidelphia) belong to the order Diprotodontia, which is split into three suborders: the Vombatiformes (wombats and the Koala, 4 species in total); the large and diverse Phalangeriformes (the possums and gliders) and Macropodiformes (kangaroos, potoroos, wallabies and the Musky rat-kangaroo).
	www.experiencefestival.com /magnorder (920 words)

	Opossum : Oppossum
		The Virginia Opossum isn'ted for its reaction to threat, which is to feign death.
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	www.termsdefined.net /op/oppossum.html (198 words)

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		The word opossu (usually pronounced without the leading 'O', or with only a very slight schwa) refers either to the Virginiaopossu in particular, or more generally to any of the other marsupials of magnorder Ameridelphia.
		Though opossu is often pronounced, and even spelled possum, the latter word actually refers to variousdistantly related but broadly similar animals of magnorder Australidelphia, that are native to Australasia and are an introduced pest in New Zealand.
		Thisis a scientific definition but in everyday parlance possum and opossu are interchangeable, "possums" were originally called"opossus" and "opossus" are more often than not referred to as "possums".
	www.vsearchmedia.com /opossu.html (569 words)

	THE THERIAN CLADE
		In theory, all nodes in the tree should be resolved into dichotomous branches but, in reality, some nodes remain polytomies because hierarchical relationships have not as yet become established.
		Only Magnorder and Grandorder levels in their classification are given, and the ordinal names used are those that largely follow Simpson because of the familiarity of these names.
		The consensus molecular tree is "the best estimate of placental relationships based on our own extensive analyses of published and unpublished data" (Waddell et al., 1999, Syst.
	ib.berkeley.edu /courses/ib173/lectures/lecture5/5-therian.html (796 words)

	Classification Review
		Just to give you a feel for the hierarchical setup, the following is the hierarchy of ranks as used recently in a major classification within the class Mammalia:
		Class Subclass Infraclass Superlegion Legion Sublegion Infralegion Supercohort Cohort Magnorder Superorder Grandorder Mirorder Order Suborder Infraorder Parvorder Superfamily Family Subfamily Tribe Subtribe Infratribe Genus Subgenus Species Subspecies
		Most of these ranks are not necessary for anyone except specialists who need to finely dissect relationships, but some groups really need one or more ranks beyond the minimal.
	museum.utep.edu /chih/NHCD/classification.htm (1024 words)

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