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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 endemic to it.
Koala Humpback whale. 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, 2 introduced lagomorphs, 44 ...
List of Australian mammals; List of Australian monotremes and marsupials; List of Australian bats; List of Australian rodents; List of placental mammals introduced to Australia; List of Australian marine mammals; Other. Australian megafauna, from first human colonisation to 1788; Amphibians of Australia; Birds of Australia; Freshwater fish of ...
Pages in category "Lists of animals of Australia" The following 31 pages are in this category, out of 31 total. ... List of Australia-New Guinea species extinct in ...
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And finally, the most obvious example of Australian animal life—the iconic kangaroo. But there are other unique animals that call the Pacific continent home, and one of the most unusual—and ...
Australia has over 860 species, a large number in comparison to other continents; for example, North America's total is about 280. [1] The most species-rich group is Squamata, the snakes and lizards. They are especially diverse in the arid areas of Australia, where other fauna are scarcer.
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 ...