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Sminthopsini. Planigalini. The Dasyuridae are a family of marsupials native to Australia and New Guinea, including 71 extant species divided into 17 genera. Many are small and mouse-like or shrew -like, giving some of them the name marsupial mice or marsupial shrews, but the group also includes the cat-sized quolls, as well as the Tasmanian devil.
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 marsupial omnivores include the bandicoots and bilbies, order Peramelemorphia. There are seven species in Australia, most of which are endangered. These small creatures share several characteristic physical features: a plump, arch-backed body with a long, delicately tapering snout, large upright ears, long thin legs, and a thin tail.
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 ...
A wallaby (/ ˈwɒləbi /) is a small or middle-sized macropod native to Australia and New Guinea, with introduced populations in New Zealand, [1] Hawaii, the United Kingdom and other countries. They belong to the same taxonomic family as kangaroos and sometimes the same genus, but kangaroos are specifically categorised into the four largest ...
Antechinus have short fur and are generally greyish or brownish in colour, varying with species. [1] The fur is dense and generally soft. Their tails are thin and tapering and range from slightly shorter to slightly longer than body length. [1] Their heads are conical in shape and ears are small to medium in size. [1]
The common wallaroo (Osphranter robustus), also known as the euro, hill wallaroo, or simply wallaroo, [2] is a species of macropod. The word euro is particularly applied to one subspecies (O. r. erubescens). [3] The eastern wallaroo is mostly nocturnal and solitary, and is one of the more common macropods. It makes a loud hissing noise and some ...
7, see text. Pademelons are small marsupials in the genus Thylogale, found in Australia and Aru, Kai plus New Guinea islands. They are some of the smallest members of the macropod family, which includes the similar-looking but larger kangaroos and wallabies. Pademelons are distinguished by their small size and their short, thick, and sparsely ...