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Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... List of marine animals of Australia (temperate waters) Australian megafauna;
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikimedia Commons; Wikidata item; Appearance. move to sidebar hide. ... Lists of animals of Australia (7 C, 31 P) *
The red kangaroo is the largest extant macropod and is one of Australia's heraldic animals, appearing with the emu on the coat of arms of Australia. [1]The fauna of Australia consists of a large variety of animals; some 46% of birds, 69% of mammals, 94% of amphibians, and 93% of reptiles that inhabit the continent are endemic to it.
Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... move to sidebar hide. This is a list of Australian mammal emblems . Area represented Image ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; ... Pages in category "Individual animals in Australia" The following 25 pages are in this ...
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 ...
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 ...
Australia has over 860 species, a large number in comparison to other continents; for example, North America's total is about 280. [1] The most species-rich group is Squamata, the snakes and lizards. They are especially diverse in the arid areas of Australia, where other fauna are scarcer.