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'.[1]
The new world has the common opossum, also a unique form.[2]
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.
1 genus–(monotypic)(2 subspecies)
Marsupial:(anteater-like)
1 genus–(6 species)
Marsupial:(cat-like)
6 genera2 surviving genera
Marsupial:(groundhog-like)
1 genus–(2 species)
Marsupial:(mole-like)
1 genus
Marsupial:(rhinoceros-like)
6 genera
Marsupial:(panther-like)
Marsupial:(flying squirrel-like)
1 genus–(1 species)
Marsupial:(canine-like)
Marsupial:(hyena-like)
? species
Marsupial:(opossum-like)