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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.
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 ...
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 .
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 ...
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 ...
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.
The yellow-footed antechinus (Antechinus flavipes), also known as the mardo, is a shrew -like marsupial found in Australia. One notable feature of the species is its sexual behavior. The male yellow-footed antechinus engages in such frenzied mating that its immune system becomes compromised, resulting in stress related death before it is one ...
The koala (Phascolarctos cinereus), sometimes called the koala bear, is an arboreal herbivorous marsupial native to Australia. It is the only extant representative of the family Phascolarctidae. Its closest living relatives are the wombats. The koala is found in coastal areas of the island's eastern and southern regions, inhabiting Queensland ...