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  2. List of Australia-New Guinea species extinct in the Holocene

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    Extinction considered to have been due to habitat clearance, predation by feral cats and possibly red foxes. [58] Maclear's rat: Rattus macleari: Christmas Island: Last collected in 1901-1902. Became extinct after being infected by trypanosome carried by fleas hosted by black rats, which were accidentally introduced by the SS Hindustan in 1900 ...

  3. Outline of life forms - Wikipedia

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    A life form (also spelled life-form or lifeform) is an entity that is living, [1] [2] such as plants , animals , and fungi . It is estimated that more than 99% of all species that ever existed on Earth, amounting to over five billion species, [3] are extinct. [4] [5] Earth is the only celestial body known to harbor life forms. No form of ...

  4. List of threatened flora of Australia - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... (M. Doherty 19/7/1985 NSW 207054) NSW ... List of extinct flora of Australia;

  5. Pink-eared duck - Wikipedia

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    The pink-eared duck was first described by the English ornithologist John Latham in 1801 under the binomial name Anas membranacea. [3] It is the only living member of the genus Malacorhynchus; a closely related, but slightly larger extinct form from New Zealand was described as Scarlett's duck (Malacorhynchus scarletti).

  6. Thick-billed grasswren - Wikipedia

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    The subspecies Amytornis modestus obscurior (north-west NSW) is listed as critically endangered by both the New South Wales and Commonwealth Governments. [ 10 ] A 2018 study ranked the species eighth in a list of Australian birds most likely to go extinct.

  7. Rhombopora - Wikipedia

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    Australia NSW Rhombopora bigemmis: Keyserling 1846 Permian Russia Rhombopora binodata: Trizna 1958 Lower Carboniferous Visean Russia, China Rhombopora biseptata: Yang, Hu & Xia 1988 Late Devonian Famennian China Rhombopora blakei: Hageman, Wyse Jackson, Abernethy & Steinthorsdottir 2011 Mississippian Tournaisian Ireland Rhombopora circumcincta ...

  8. Quinkana - Wikipedia

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    As one of the first fossil crocodilians to be recognized from Australia, Quinkana has a long history. Some of the earliest fossil finds now attributed to this genus date as far back as 1886, when Charles Walter De Vis found a variety of fossil bones, including those of Quinkana, in the Darling Downs region of Queensland, which he informally dubbed Pallimnarchus pollens (now considered to be a ...

  9. Murrayglossus - Wikipedia

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    Murrayglossus is an extinct echidna from the Pleistocene of Western Australia.It contains a single species, Murrayglossus hacketti, also called Hackett's giant echidna.Though only from a few bones, researchers suggest that Murrayglossus was the largest monotreme to have ever lived, measuring around 1 metre (3.3 ft) long and weighing around 20–30 kilograms (44–66 lb).