VMD 512: Zoo/Wild Animal Breeding, Management, Nutrition and Health Care (1+1)

INFRACLASSES OF THERIA - ASSOCIATED FACTORS

Infraclass I

• Metatheria
  • This group consists of a single order Marsupilia .
  • Marsupials are the animals with a brood pouch or marsupium in the females in which the new born ins taken care of well. Examples: Kangaroo, tiger cat, opossum and the like.

Infraclass II

• Eutheria
  • These animals lack marsupium and cloaca. This group comprises all other mammals that are again divided into many orders .(Edentata, Pholidota, Primates, Proboscidea, Lagomorpha, Dermoptera, Chiroptera, Insectivora, Rodentia, Hyracoidea, Tubelidentata, Artiodactyla, Perissodactyla, Carnivora,Cetacea and Sirenia)