Animals that carry their young in a pouch are marsupials. They include:
- kangaroo (Red kangaroo, Eastern Grey)
- tree kangaroo
- wallaroo
- koala
- wombat
- Tasmanian devil
- wallaby (e.g. swamp wallaby, rock wallaby, hare-wallaby)
- bilby
- bandicoot
- quoll
- quokka
- pademelon
- potoroo
- possum (quite different to the North American opossum)
- opossum (not native to Australia)
- sugar glider and other gliders
- phascogale / tuan / wambenger
- dunnart
- antechinus (including the Little red kaluta) and false antechinus
- rat-kangaroo (not kangaroo-rat, which is not a marsupial)
- bettong
- cuscus
- kultarr
- mulgara
- ningaui
- dibbler
- planigale
- bettong
- kowari
- marsupial mole
- triok
- boodie
- woylie
- marsupial shrew
Even though the echidna is not a marsupial, it carries its young in a rudimentary pouch that it develops during the breeding season. This is until the echidna develops its spines.
