Diprotodontia Owen 1866

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Diprotodontia, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 43-70 : 43

Diprotodontia Owen 1866

Families: 11 families with 39 genera and 143 species in 3 suborders:

Suborder VOMBATIFORMES Burnett 1830

Family Phascolarctidae Owen 1839 (1 genus with 1 species)

Family Vombatidae Burnett 1829 (2 genera with 3 species and 3 subspecies)

Suborder PHALANGERIFORMES Szalay, in Archer (ed.) 1982

Family Burramyidae Broom 1898 (2 genera with 5 species and 6 subspecies)

Family Phalangeridae Thomas 1888 (6 genera with 27 species and 23 subspecies)

Family Pseudocheiridae Winge 1893 (6 genera with 17 species and 19 subspecies)

Family Petauridae Bonaparte 1838 (3 genera with 11 species and 10 subspecies)

Family Tarsipedidae Gervais and Verreaux 1842 (1 genus with 1 species)

Family Acrobatidae Aplin 1987 (2 genera with 2 species)

Suborder MACROPODIFORMES Ameghino 1889

Family Hypsiprymnodontidae Collett 1877 (1 genus with 1 species)

Family Potoroidae Gray 1821 (4 genera with 10 species and 2 subspecies)

Family Macropodidae Gray 1821 (11 genera with 65 species and 40 subspecies)

Discussion: Recognized as an order by Aplin and Archer (1987) who proposed a new syncretic classification of the marsupials. Divided into three suborders by Kirsch et al. (1997); their arrangement is followed here.