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The red kangaroo is Australia's largest living marsupial, described by Desmarest in 1822 and widespread across the dry mainland interior.
Gilbert's potoroo is a critically endangered Western Australian potoroid, described by Gould in 1841 and rediscovered in 1994.
The water opossum is the semiaquatic yapok, Chironectes minimus, described in 1780 and the most aquatic living marsupial from Mexico to Argentina.
The feathertail glider is an eastern Australian acrobatid possum, described by Shaw in 1793 and often cited as the smallest gliding mammal.
The eastern grey kangaroo is a large macropod of eastern Australia, described by George Shaw in 1790 and often the country's most seen kangaroo.
The western grey kangaroo is a large southern Australian macropod, formally described by Desmarest in 1817 from Kangaroo Island material.
The Virginia opossum (Didelphis virginiana) is the northernmost living marsupial, ranging from Costa Rica into Canada and named by Kerr in 1792.
The tammar wallaby is a small Australian macropod, described by Desmarest in 1817 and used as a model marsupial with its genome sequenced in 2011.
The long-footed potoroo is a vulnerable southeastern Australian potoroid, first recorded near Bonang, Victoria, in 1967.
Lumholtz's tree-kangaroo is a small arboreal macropod of Queensland's Atherton Tableland, described by Collett in 1884 and named for Carl Lumholtz.
The antilopine kangaroo is a large northern Australian macropod, described by John Gould in 1842 and common in the Top End, Kimberley, and Cape York.
The long-nosed potoroo is a southeastern Australian and Tasmanian potoroid, described by Kerr in 1792 and important for spreading fungal spores.
The red-necked wallaby is a temperate eastern Australian macropod, described by Desmarest in 1817 and established as an introduced animal in New Zealand.
The black-shouldered opossum is the sole species of Caluromysiops, described in 1951 and known from western Brazil and southeastern Peru.
The common wallaroo is a robust Australian macropod, described by John Gould in 1841 and represented by four subspecies including the euro.
The brush-tailed rock-wallaby is an eastern Australian Petrogale, described by J. E. Gray in 1827 and declared the ACT mammal emblem in 2018.
The New Guinean quoll is a spotted forest dasyurid of New Guinea, notable as one of the island's two quoll species and a capable climber.
The bare-tailed woolly opossum is a South American Caluromys described by Linnaeus in 1758, known for a woolly coat and partly naked prehensile tail.
The agile wallaby is a common northern Australian and southern New Guinea wallaby, described by John Gould in 1842 and known for sandy coloration.
The common opossum (Didelphis marsupialis) is a large tropical American marsupial named by Linnaeus in 1758 and found from Mexico to Bolivia.
Derby's woolly opossum is a Neotropical Caluromys described in 1841, ranging from southern Mexico to western Ecuador and Colombia.
The whiptail wallaby is an eastern Australian wallaby, described by Bennett in 1835 and also called the pretty-faced wallaby for its facial stripes.
The bridled nail-tail wallaby is a rare Queensland macropod, described by Gould in 1841 and rediscovered near Dingo after no confirmed records since 1937.
The Andean white-eared opossum (Didelphis pernigra) is an Andean species from Venezuela to Bolivia, split from D. albiventris in 2002.
The big lutrine opossum (Lutreolina crassicaudata) is an otter-like South American marsupial named in 1804, noted for swimming near wetlands.
The Parma wallaby is a small forest wallaby from northeastern New South Wales, rediscovered on New Zealand's Kawau Island in 1965.
The lowlands tree-kangaroo is a vulnerable Papua New Guinea species, described in 1936 and notable for inhabiting southern New Guinea lowland rainforest.
The Chacoan pygmy opossum is the only Chacodelphys species, erected in 2004 after long being known from one 1920 specimen from Formosa, Argentina.
