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Koala Humpback whale. A total of 386 species of mammals have been recorded in Australia and surrounding continental waters: 364 indigenous and 22 introduced. [1] The list includes 2 monotremes, 154 marsupials, 83 bats, 69 rodents (5 introduced), 10 pinnipeds, 2 terrestrial carnivorans (1 recent introduction, and 1 prehistoric introduction), 13 introduced ungulates, 2 introduced lagomorphs, 44 ...
Pages in category "Lists of animals of Australia" The following 31 pages are in this category, out of 31 total. ... List of Australia-New Guinea species extinct in ...
The mammals of Australia have a rich fossil history, as well as a variety of extant mammalian species, dominated by the marsupials, but also including monotremes and placentals. The marsupials evolved to fill specific ecological niches, and in many cases they are physically similar to the placental mammals in Eurasia and North America that ...
This is a list of rodents of Australia. [1] [2] Australia has a large number of indigenous rodents, all from the family Muridae.The "Old endemics" group are member of tribe Hydromyini, which reached Australasia between 11 – 9 million years ago from Asia, while the "New endemics", members of the tribe Rattini, are presumed to have arrived more recently, between 4 – 3 million years ago, also ...
Australia is home to two of the five extant species of monotremes and the majority of the world's marsupials (the remainder are from Papua New Guinea, eastern Indonesia and the Americas). The taxonomy is somewhat fluid; this list generally follows Menkhorst and Knight [ 1 ] and Van Dyck and Strahan, [ 2 ] with some input from the global list ...
There are more than 700 species of lizards in Australia [125] with representatives of five families. [126] There are over 130 species in 20 genera of gecko found throughout the Australian continent. [125] The Pygopodidae is a family of limbless lizards endemic to the Australian region; [127] all 39 species from seven genera occur in Australia ...
Pages in category "Lists of mammals of Australia" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. ... This page was last edited on 8 July 2022, at 20:41 ...
This is the list of bats of Australia, [1] [2] [3] a sub-list of the list of mammals of Australia. About 81 bat species are known to occur in Australia, Lord Howe and Christmas Island. [4] This list principally follows the authoritative references, the Australian Faunal Directory [5] and Churchill (2008). [3] Bats are all of the order Chiroptera.