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The northern marsupial mole or kakarratul (Notoryctes caurinus) is a marsupial in the family Notoryctidae, an endemic animal of arid regions of Central Australia.It lives in the loose sand of dunes and river plains in the desert, spending nearly its entire life beneath ground. [3]
The northern marsupial mole was spotted in Martu Country, an area in northern Western Australia traditionally owned by the Martu – a group of Australia’s indigenous people.
Marsupial moles, the Notoryctidae / n oʊ t ə ˈ r ɪ k t ɪ d iː / family, are two species of highly specialized marsupial mammals that are found in the Australian interior. [2] They are small burrowing marsupials that anatomically converge on fossorial placental mammals, such as extant golden moles (Chrysochloridae) and extinct epoicotheres ().
Order Notoryctemorphia (marsupial moles and closely related extinct families of marsupials) Family Notoryctidae (living and extinct marsupial mole genera) Genus Notoryctes (only genus of marsupial moles with living species) Species Notoryctes typhlops (southern marsupial mole) Species Notoryctes caurinus (northern marsupial mole)
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The latter subclass is divided into two infraclasses: pouched mammals (metatherians or marsupials), and placental mammals (eutherians, for which see List of placental mammals). Classification updated from Wilson and Reeder's "Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference" using the "Planet Mammifères" website. [1]
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Northern marsupial mole; Southern marsupial mole; Carnivora. There are 175 species, 14 subspecies, and one subpopulation in the order Carnivora assessed as least ...