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Examples of marsupium
marsupium
Like most marsupials, female kangaroos have a pouch called a marsupium in which joeys complete postnatal development.
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The offspring are eventually able to leave the marsupium for short periods, returning to it for warmth, protection and nourishment.
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A female woodlouse will keep fertilisedeggs in a marsupium on the underside of her body until they hatch into small, white offspring.
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- An external abdominal pouch in most marsupials where newborn offspring are suckled
- The external pouch in which female marsupials rear and feed the young; A brood pouch in some fishes and crustaceans
- The portion of the gills of a female mussel that contain glochidia
- Structures in invertebrates for enclosing or carrying eggs or young.
- Structure in which eggs and embryos are retained and brooded by female; the broodpouch. Isopod marsupia are typically formed by overlapping medial plates (oostegites) arising from certain pereonal coxae in females; in a few groups the oostegites have been reduced or lost in lieu of internal ...
- Brood pouch found on the ventral surface of the thorax of female peracarid crustaceans, formed from plate-like extensions of the coxa of thoracic limbs (oostegites)
- A ventral pereonal enclosure on females for developing embryos. It is composed of oostegites projecting medially from the coxae of the anterior pereopods (pers 1-4 in asellotan isopods). Some isopods have an additional small oostegite on the coxa of the maxilliped.
- Mar-SOUP-ee-uhm/ (1) A fold of skin or pouch, containing the mammary glands, and serving to hold and protect the young during early development; found in many, but not all animals classified as marsupials; (2) a pouch present in certain non-mammals, such as fish, in which eggs are carried ...
- A swollen sac or bulb that grows down into the substrate; protects the developing sporophyte of some leafy liverworts.
