Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Agents Facet
3. Living Organisms (hierarchy name)
4. living organisms (entities)
5. Eukaryota (domain)
6. Animalia (kingdom)
7. Chordata (phylum)
8. Vertebrata (subphylum)
9. Mammalia (class)

Additional parents:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Agents Facet
3. Living Organisms
4. living organisms
5. Eukaryota
6. Animalia
7. Chordata
8. Vertebrata
9. Mammalia
10. Metatheria

Narrower term/s

• Didelphidae (family)

Anotations

Scope note:

Order of North and South American marsupial mammals, containing 70 or more species in only one family. Usually semi-arboreal omnivores, having a very full jaw of teeth, moving with feet flat on the ground (plantigrade) and hind feet with an opposable digit with no claw, and a prehensile tails. The name "opossum" is based on a term in the Powhatan language meaning "white dog-like creature."