Ameridelphia

L-Ameridelphia huwa superordni ta' mammiferi marsupjali (l-opossumi u l-opossumi bugdiedem). Dan qiegħed ikklassifikat fil-klassi Mammalia, fis-sottoklassi Theria, fl-infraklassi Metatheria, b'żewġ ordnijiet (Paucituberculata u Didelphimorphia). Is-superordni Ameridelphia flimkien mal-Australidelphia jiffurmaw l-infraklassi Metatheria.

L-Ameridelphia jinkludi fih il-marsupjali kollha taż-żewġ kontinenti Amerikani, minbarra il-marsupjal kolokolo jew monito del monte Dromiciops gliroides, li għalkemm huwa mifrux mal-kontinent tal-Amerika t'Isfel jifforma parti mis-superordni Australidelphia.

Klassifikazzjoni
Superordni Ameridelphia
Ordni Didelphimorphia
Familja Didelphidae (opossumi)
Ordni Paucituberculata
Familja Caenolestidae (opossumi bugdiedem)

Referenzi
McKenna, M.C. & Bell, S.K. 1997. Classification of mammals: above the species level. New York: Columbia University Press, 631 pp. ISBN 0-213-11013-8 
Nilsson, M.A., Arnason, U., Spencer, P.B.S. & Janke, A. 2004. Marsupial relationships and a timeline for marsupial radiation in South Gondwana. Gene 340:189-196. 
Jansa, S.A. & Voss, R.S. 2000. Phylogenetic Studies on Didelphid Marsupials I. Introduction and Preliminary Results from Nuclear IRBP Gene Sequences. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 7(1):43-77. 
Kirsch, J.A.W., Lapointe, F.-J. & Springer, M.S. 1997. DNA-hybridisation studies of marsupials and their implications for metatherian classification. Australian Journal of Zoology 45:211-280. 
Palma, R.E. & Spotorno, A.E. 1999. Molecular systematics of marsupials bvased on the rRNA 12S mitochondrial gene: the phylogeny of Didelphimorphia and of the living fossil microbiotheriid Dormiciops gliroides Thomas. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 13:525-535.

Ħoloq esterni
Klassifikazzjoni tal-Ameridelphia f'The Taxonomicon

Kategorija:Metatheria