| Monikko | marsupials |
| Komparatiivi | more marsupial |
| Superlatiivi | most marsupial |
Any member of the mammalian infraclass Marsupialia, including those where the female has a pouch in which it rears its young through early infancy, such as kangaroos, koalas, wombats and opossums, as well as the pouchless shrew opossums.
Clockwise from left: eastern grey kangaroo, Virginia opossum, long-nosed bandicoot, monito del monte and Tasmanian devil representing the orders Diprotodontia, Didelphimorphia, Peramelemorphia, Microbiotheria and Dasyuromorphia respectively
Any member of the mammalian infraclass Marsupialia, including those where the female has a pouch in which it rears its young through early infancy, such as kangaroos, koalas, wombats and opossums, as well as the pouchless shrew opossums.
Marsupial world distribution Introduced - in New Zealand the introduced species is the common brushtail possum (Trichosurus vulpecula), while on the west coast of North America it is the Virginia opossum (Didelphis virginiana). Wild European pocket populations are excluded Native
Any member of the mammalian infraclass Marsupialia, including those where the female has a pouch in which it rears its young through early infancy, such as kangaroos, koalas, wombats and opossums, as well as the pouchless shrew opossums.
Koala (Phascolarctos cinereus)