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Wildlife of Australia. 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 ...
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 ...
The dingo was the first placental mammal introduced to Australia by humans. Australia has indigenous placental mammals from two orders: the bats, order Chiroptera, represented by six families, and the mice and rats, order Rodentia, family Muridae. Bats and rodents are relatively recent arrivals to Australia.
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 ...
Download QR code; Wikidata item; Print/export Download as PDF; ... Pages in category "Lists of animals of Australia" The following 32 pages are in this category, out ...
Sicula gracilior. Sustainable wildlife enterprise. Categories: Fauna by country. Fauna of Oceania by country. Biota of Australia. Australasian realm fauna. Hidden category: Commons category link from Wikidata.
Brush-tailed rock-wallaby. For the King, the Law and the People. Blue and gold. Batocara mitchelli '[ 8] City of Canberra tartan [ Note 3] Symbols of Australian Capital Territory [ 9] Northern Territory. Coat of arms of the Northern Territory. Sturt's desert rose.
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