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  2. List of mammals of Western Australia - Wikipedia

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    Rakali, Hydromys chrysogaster. Forrest's mouse, Leggadina forresti. Short-tailed hopping mouse, Leggadina lakedownensis. Lesser stick-nest rat, Leporillus apicalis EX. Greater stick-nest rat, Leporillus conditor. Grassland melomys, Melomys burtoni. Black-footed tree-rat, Mesembriomys gouldii.

  3. List of monotremes and marsupials of Australia - Wikipedia

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    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, which ...

  4. Western quoll - Wikipedia

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    The western quoll (Dasyurus geoffroii) is Western Australia's largest endemic mammalian carnivore. [4] One of the many marsupial mammals native to Australia , it is also known as the chuditch . The species is currently classed as near-threatened .

  5. Quokka - Wikipedia

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    Like other marsupials in the macropod family (such as kangaroos and wallabies), the quokka is herbivorous and mainly nocturnal. [5] The quokka's range is a small area of southwestern Australia. They inhabit some smaller islands off the coast of Western Australia, particularly Rottnest Island just off Perth and Bald Island near Albany. Isolated ...

  6. Gilbert's potoroo - Wikipedia

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    Gilbert's potoroo or ngilkat (Potorous gilbertii) is Australia's most endangered marsupial, the rarest marsupial in the world, and one of the world's rarest critically endangered mammals, found in south-western Western Australia. It is a small nocturnal macropod that lives in small groups. It was thought to be extinct for much of the 20th ...

  7. Quenda - Wikipedia

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    The quenda (Isoodon obesulus fusciventer), also known as the southern brown bandicoot, is a small marsupial species [2] endemic to South Western Australia.. Though it is currently treated as a subspecies of the southern brown bandicoot (Isoodon obesulus), such as by the IUCN where it is given the status of least concern, [1] a 2018 paper proposed to raise it to species rank due to molecular ...

  8. Mammals of Australia - Wikipedia

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    The remainder of the Dasyuridae are referred to as "marsupial mice"; most weigh less than 100 grams (3 + 1 ⁄ 2 oz). There are two species of marsupial mole — order Notoryctemorphia — that inhabit the deserts of Western Australia. These rare, blind, earless carnivores spend most of their time underground; little is known about them.

  9. Red kangaroo - Wikipedia

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    The red kangaroo (Osphranter rufus [5]) is the largest of all kangaroos, the largest terrestrial mammal native to Australia, and the largest extant marsupial.It is found across mainland Australia, except for the more fertile areas, such as southern Western Australia, the eastern and southeastern coasts, and the rainforests along the northern coast.