List of Australian monotremes and marsupials
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Mammals are divided into two subclasses based on reproductive techniques: egg laying mammals (the monotremes), and live birth mammals. The second subclass is divided into two infraclasses: pouched mammals (the marsupials) and placental mammals.
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 and Van Dyck and Strahan, with some input from the global list, which is derived from Gardner and Groves.
This is a sub-list of the list of mammals of Australia.
Dasyuridae
Peramelidae
Phalangeridae
Petauridae
Pseudocheiridae
Potoroidae
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 and Van Dyck and Strahan, with some input from the global list, which is derived from Gardner and Groves.
This is a sub-list of the list of mammals of Australia.
DasyuridaeDasyuridaeDasyuridae is a family of marsupials native to Australia and New Guinea, including 61 species divided into 15 genera. Many are small and mouse-like, giving them the misnomer marsupial mice, but the group also includes the cat-sized quolls, as well as the Tasmanian Devil...
- Agile AntechinusAgile AntechinusThe Agile Antechinus is a species of small carnivorous marsupial of the family Dasyuridae. It is found in Australia.-Taxonomy:...
, Antechinus agilis - Fawn AntechinusFawn AntechinusThe Fawn Antechinus is a species of small carnivorous marsupial found in northern Australia. It is the only antechinus to be found in the Northern Territory and has a patchy, restricted range.-Taxonomy:...
, Antechinus bellus - Yellow-footed AntechinusYellow-footed Antechinusthumb|250pxThe Yellow-footed Antechinus , also known as the Mardo, is a shrew-like marsupial found in Australia. One notable feature of the species is its sexual behavior...
, Antechinus flavipes - Atherton AntechinusAtherton AntechinusThe Atherton Antechinus , also known as Godman's Antechinus, is a species of small carnivorous marsupial native to Australia. It is one of the rarest members of its genus, and differs from other antechinuses in its more rufous body colour and small eyes.-Taxonomy:The Atherton Antechinus was first...
, Antechinus godmani - Cinnamon AntechinusCinnamon AntechinusThe Cinnamon Antechinus , also known as the Iron Ranges Antechinus and the Cape York Antechinus, is a species of small carnivorous marsupial of the family Dasyuridae. It is the only mammal endemic to Cape York Peninsula, being confined to semi-deciduous forest around the McIlraith and Iron Ranges...
, Antechinus leo - Swamp AntechinusSwamp AntechinusThe Swamp Antechinus , also known as the Little Tasmanian Marsupial Mouse, is a species of shrew-like marsupial of the Dasyuridae family and as such is related to dunnarts, quolls and the Tasmanian Devil.-Taxonomy:...
, Antechinus minimus - Brown AntechinusBrown AntechinusThe Brown Antechinus , also known as Stuart's Antechinus and Macleay's Marsupial Mouse, is a species of small carnivorous marsupial of the family Dasyuridae.-Taxonomy:...
, Antechinus stuartii - Subtropical AntechinusSubtropical AntechinusThe Subtropical Antechinus is a species of small carnivorous marsupial of the family Dasyuridae. It was previously thought to be conspecific with the Brown Antechinus ....
, Antechinus subtropicus - Dusky AntechinusDusky AntechinusThe Dusky Antechinus , also known as Swainson's Antechinus or the Dusky Marsupial Mouse, is a species of small marsupial carnivore, a member of the family Dasyuridae. It is found in Australia.-Taxonomy:...
, Antechinus swainsonii - Brush-tailed MulgaraBrush-tailed MulgaraThe Brush-tailed Mulgara is a large carnivorous Australian marsupial species. Its body mass is over 100grams, with males being slightly larger than females. Their head length is 15 cm, and tail length is 9 cm....
, Dasycercus blythi - Crest-tailed MulgaraCrest-tailed MulgaraThe Crest-tailed Mulgara also called the Ampurta is a species of carnivorous marsupial from Australia. Also called the Crest-tailed Marsupial Mouse, this animal slightly resembles a placental rat....
, Dasycercus cristicauda - KalutaKalutaKaluta has at least two meanings:*Little Red Kaluta - the Australian marsupial*Michael William Kaluta - the American artist...
, Dasykaluta rosamondae - KowariKowariThe Kowari , also known as the Brush-tailed Marsupial Rat, Kayer Rat, Byrne's Crest-tailed Marsupial Rat, Bushy-tailed Marsupial Rat and Kawiri, is a small carnivorous marsupial native to the dry grasslands and deserts of central Australia...
, Dasyuroides byrnei - Western QuollWestern QuollThe western quoll , also known as the chuditch or western native cat, is a medium sized predator and like its eastern and northern relatives, has a white-spotted brown coat and a long tail. It is most closely related to the eastern quoll from which it differs in possessing a first toe on the...
, Dasyurus geoffroii - Northern QuollNorthern QuollThe Northern Quoll , also known as the Northern Native Cat, the Satanellus, the North Australian Native Cat or the Njanmak , is a carnivorous marsupial mammal, native to Australia.- Taxonomy :The Northern Quoll is a member of the family Dasyuridae, and is often stated to be the most distinctive...
, Dasyurus hallucatus - Tiger QuollTiger QuollThe tiger quoll , also known as the spotted-tail quoll, the spotted quoll, the spotted-tailed dasyure or the tiger cat, is a carnivorous marsupial of the quoll genus Dasyurus native to Australia...
, Dasyurus maculatus - Eastern QuollEastern QuollThe Eastern Quoll , also known as the Eastern Native Cat, is a medium-sized carnivorous dasyurid marsupial native to Australia. They are now considered extinct on the mainland, but remain widespread and even locally common in Tasmania...
, Dasyurus viverrinus - Wongai NingauiWongai NingauiThe Wongai Ningaui , also known as the Inland Ningaui, is a small carnivorous marsupial native to Australia.-Taxonomy:...
, Ningaui ridei - Pilbara NingauiPilbara NingauiThe Pilbara Ningaui , sometimes known as Ealey's Ningaui, is a tiny species of marsupial carnivore found in Australia. It rarely exceeds 5.8cm in body length, with a tail 6-7.6cm long and a weight of 5-9.4g...
, Ningaui timealeyi - Mallee Ningaui, Ningaui yvonnae
- DibblerDibblerDibbler is the common name for Parantechinus apicalis, an endangered species of marsupial. It is an inhabitant of the southwest mainland of Western Australia and some offshore islands. It is a member of the Dasyuromorphia order, and the only member of the genus, Parantechinus...
, Parantechinus apicalis - Red-tailed PhascogaleRed-tailed PhascogaleThe Red-tailed Phascogale , also known as the Red-tailed Wambenger, is a small carnivorous marsupial found in central and western Australia...
, Phascogale calura - Brush-tailed PhascogaleBrush-tailed PhascogaleThe Brush-tailed Phascogale , also known as the Tuan, the Common Wambenger or the Black-tailed Phascogale, is a rat-sized arboreal carnivorous marsupial of the family Dasyuridae, characterized by a tuft of black silky hairs on the terminal portion of its tail...
, Phascogale tapoatafa - KultarrKultarrThe Kultarr , also known as the Jerboa-marsupial, the Jerboa Pouched-mouse, the Wuhl-wuhl or the Pitchi-pitchi, is a member of the Dasyuromorphia order. It is the only species in the Antechinomys genus...
, Antechinomys laniger - Paucident PlanigalePaucident PlanigaleThe Paucident Planigale , also known as Giles' Planigale, is a very small species of carnivorous marsupial of the family Dasyuridae.-Taxonomy:...
, Planigale gilesi - Long-tailed PlanigaleLong-tailed PlanigaleThe Long-tailed Planigale , also known as Ingram's Planigale or the Northern Planigale, is the smallest of all marsupials, and one of the smallest of all mammals...
, Planigale ingrami - Common Planigale, Planigale maculata
- Narrow-nosed PlanigaleNarrow-nosed PlanigaleThe Narrow-nosed Planigale is a species of very small marsupial carnivore of the family Dasyuridae.-Taxonomy:The Narrow-nosed Planigale was described by Ellis Le Geyt Troughton in 1928, separating it from the Common Planigale with which it had previously been associated...
, Planigale tenuirostris - Sandstone False Antechinus, Pseudantechinus bilarni
- Fat-tailed False AntechinusFat-tailed False AntechinusThe Fat-tailed False Antechinus , also called the Fat-tailed Pseudantechinus and Red-eared Antechinus, is a member of the Dasyuromorphia order...
, Pseudantechinus macdonnellensis - Alexandria False AntechinusAlexandria False AntechinusThe Alexandria False Antechinus , also known as the Carpentarian False Antechinus or Carpentarian Pseudantechinus, is a small carnivorous marsupial, found only in a number of small, isolated localities in northern Australia...
, Pseudantechinus mimulus - Ningbing False AntechinusNingbing False AntechinusThe Ningbing False Antechinus , also known as the Ningbing Pseudantechinus, is a small species of carnivorous marsupial found in north-western Australia...
, Pseudantechinus ningbing - Rory Cooper's False AntechinusRory Cooper's False AntechinusRory Cooper's False Antechinus , also known as the Tan False Antechinus and the Tan Pseudantechinus, is a recently named species of small carnivorous marsupial which inhabits rocky outcrops in Western Australia...
, Pseudantechinus roryi - Woolley's False AntechinusWoolley's False AntechinusWoolley's False Antechinus , also known as Woolley's Pseudantechinus, is a species of small carnivorous marsupial belonging to the family Dasyuridae...
, Pseudantechinus woolleyae - Tasmanian DevilTasmanian DevilThe Tasmanian devil is a carnivorous marsupial of the family Dasyuridae, now found in the wild only on the Australian island state of Tasmania. The size of a small dog, it became the largest carnivorous marsupial in the world following the extinction of the thylacine in 1936...
, Sarcophilus harrisii - Fat-tailed DunnartFat-tailed DunnartThe Fat Tailed Dunnart is a species of mouse-like marsupial of the Dasyuridae family, the family includes the Little Red Kaluta, quolls, and the Tasmanian Devil. It has an average body length of 60–90 mm with a tail of 45–70 mm. Ear length is 14–16 mm...
, Sminthopsis crassicaudata - Kakadu DunnartKakadu DunnartThe Kakadu Dunnart is a dunnart that was described in 1994 and the closest relative is the Carpentarian Dunnart. Its typical body length is 50-85mm long with a tail of 60-105mm for a total length of between 110-190mm, and a weight of between 10-25g, placing this species in the mid-range of the...
, Sminthopsis bindi - Carpentarian DunnartCarpentarian DunnartThe Carpentarian Dunnart also known as the Butler's Dunnart with a puffy brown or mouse grey colour above and the underside of white, similar to its close relative the Kakadu Dunnart. Head to anus length is 75-88m awith a tail of 72-90mm long for a total length of 147-178mm...
, Sminthopsis butleri - Julia Creek DunnartJulia Creek DunnartThe Julia Creek Dunnart is a marsupial with a large buffy brown upperside and white underside. This dunnart has a body length of 100-135 mm with a tail of 60-105 mm to make a total length of between 160-240 mm. Its weight is between 40-70g. The length of the hind foot is between...
, Sminthopsis douglasi - Stripe-faced DunnartStripe-faced DunnartThe Striped-faced Dunnart is an Australian marsupial. This dunnart has an average length of 155-198 mm from the tip of the snout to the tip of the tail, snout to anus distance of 75-98 mm, a tail measuring 80-100 mm and an ear length of 17-18 mm. Its weight varies between 15-25 grams. It has a...
, Sminthopsis macroura - Red-cheeked DunnartRed-cheeked DunnartThe Red-cheeked Dunnart is so called because of the distinctive red hair on its cheek. It is an Australasian marsupial. Its total length is 167–270 mm; its average body length is 80–135 mm with a tail of 87–135 mm. Ear length is 12–13 mm. Its weight varies between 18 and...
, Sminthopsis virginiae - White-tailed DunnartWhite-tailed DunnartThe White-tailed Dunnart , also known as the Ash-grey Dunnart, is a dunnart native to Australia. It has an average body length of 126-168 mm, a snout to anus length of 70-100 mm, a tail measurement of 56-68 mm and a weight which varies between 18-35 grams...
, Sminthopsis granulipes - Kangaroo Island DunnartKangaroo Island DunnartThe Kangaroo Island Dunnart is a dark sooty-grey coloured dunnart species first discovered in 1969, with paler underparts of its body. It has an average body length of 170mm-198mm, a snout to anus length of 80-93 mm, a tail measurement of 90-105 mm, a hind foot of 17.5mm, ear length of 18mm and a...
, Sminthopsis aitkeni - Boullanger Island DunnartBoullanger Island DunnartThe Boullanger Island Dunnart is a species of dunnart found only on Boullanger Island, Western Australia. It was formerly considered a subspecies of the Grey-bellied Dunnart , for which reason it was not assessed by the IUCN in 2008...
, Sminthopsis boullangerensis - Grey-bellied Dunnart, Sminthopsis griseoventer
- Long-tailed DunnartLong-tailed DunnartLong-tailed Dunnart is an Australian dunnart that, like the Little Long-tailed Dunnart, has a tail longer than its body. It is also one of the larger dunnarts at a length from snout to tail of 260-306 mm of which head to anus is 80-96 mm and tail 180-210 mm long...
, Sminthopsis longicaudata - Chestnut DunnartChestnut DunnartThe Chestnut Dunnart is a dunnart that was described by Van Dyck in 1986 and is named because of its chestnut colour in the upperparts of its body. The length from snout to tail being 167-210 mm of which head to anus is 85-105 mm and tail 82-105 mm long...
, Sminthopsis archeri - Little Long-tailed DunnartLittle Long-tailed DunnartThe Little Long-tailed Dunnart is a dunnart that was, along with Gilbert's Dunnart, described in 1984. The length from snout to tail is 150-200 mm of which head to anus is 65-50 mm and tail 85-105 mm long...
, Sminthopsis dolichura - Sooty DunnartSooty DunnartThe Sooty Dunnart is a species of dunnart found in Western Australia. It is one of the least-known of the dunnarts, with the IUCN classifying it as data deficient. It was formerly believed to be a subspecies of the Common Dunnart ....
, Sminthopsis fulginosus - Gilbert's DunnartGilbert's DunnartGilbert's Dunnart is a recently discovered dunnart, described in 1984. The length from snout to tail being 155-180 mm of which head to anus is 80-90 mm and tail 75-90 mm long...
, Sminthopsis gilberti - White-footed DunnartWhite-footed DunnartThe White Footed Dunnart is a marsupial that occurs of Tasmania and Australia. It occurs along the coast and in inner Gippsland and Alpine areas up to 400 metres near Narbethong...
, Sminthopsis leucopus - Slender-tailed DunnartSlender-tailed DunnartThe Slender-tailed Dunnart , also known as the Common Dunnart in Australia, is a dasyurid marsupial . It has an average body length of 7 to 12 centimeters with a tail length of 5.5 to 13 centimetres...
, Sminthopsis murina - Hairy-footed DunnartHairy-footed DunnartThe Hairy-footed Dunnart is a dunnart that has silver hairs on the soles of it hind feet accompanied by long hair on the side of its sole. It is an Australian marsupial similar to the Ooldea Dunnart, with its upper body yellow-brown and lower body white in colour...
, Sminthopsis hirtipes - Ooldea DunnartOoldea DunnartThe Ooldea Dunnart , also called Troughton's Dunnart after the person who found the species, is an Australian marsupial similar to the Hairy-footed Dunnart. It is greyish-yellow on its upper body and white on the underside with dark patches on its crown, forehead and in front of the eyes, and a...
, Sminthopsis ooldea - Sandhill DunnartSandhill DunnartThe Sandhill Dunnart is a species of small carnivorous Australian marsupial of the family Dasyuridae. It is known from four scattered arid areas of Australia: near Lake Amadeus in Northern Territory, the central Eyre Peninsula in South Australia, the southwestern edge of the Great Victoria Desert...
, Sminthopsis psammophila - Lesser Hairy-footed DunnartLesser Hairy-footed DunnartThe Lesser Hairy-footed Dunnart is a small carnivorous Australian marsupial of the family Dasyuridae. It is a widespread and fairly common species, being found in many desert areas of Western Australia, Northern Territory and Queensland...
, Sminthopsis youngsoni
PeramelidaePeramelidaePeramelidae is the family of marsupials that contains all of the extant bandicoots. One known extinct species of bandicoot, the Pig-footed Bandicoot, was so different than the other species that it was recently moved into its own family. There are four described fossil Peramelids...
- Pig-footed BandicootPig-footed BandicootThe Pig-footed Bandicoot, Chaeropus ecaudatus, was a small marsupial of the arid and semi-arid plains of Australia. The distribution range of the species was later reduced to an inland desert region, where it was last recorded in the 1950s, and is now presumed to be extinct.-Classification:This...
†, Chaeropus ecaudatus - extinct - Golden BandicootGolden BandicootThe Golden Bandicoot is a short-nosed bandicoot found in northern Australia. It is by far the smallest of its genus, being a little over half the size of its relatives the Northern Brown Bandicoot and the Southern Brown Bandicoot .The Golden Bandicoot is now a threatened species...
, Isoodon auratus - Northern Brown BandicootNorthern Brown BandicootThe Northern Brown Bandicoot , a marsupial species, is a bandicoot found only on the northern and eastern coasts of Australia and nearby islands, mainly Papua New Guinea. It is not, however, found far inland....
, Isoodon macrourus - Southern Brown BandicootSouthern Brown BandicootThe Southern Brown Bandicoot , also known as the Quenda from the local Noongar tongue from South Western Australia, is a short-nosed bandicoot found mostly in southern Australia....
, Isoodon obesulus - Western Barred BandicootWestern Barred BandicootThe Western Barred Bandicoot , also known as the Marl, is a small species of bandicoot found in Australia. It was once widespread across southern Australia from Western Australia to central New South Wales, but it is now found on Bernier, Dorre and Faure islands in Shark Bay, Western Australia,...
, Perameles bougainville - Desert BandicootDesert BandicootThe Desert Bandicoot is an extinct bandicoot of the arid country in the centre of Australia. The last known specimen was collected in 1943 on the Canning Stock Route in Western Australia...
†, Perameles eremiana - extinct - Eastern Barred BandicootEastern Barred BandicootThe Eastern Barred Bandicoot was once distributed across the Basalt Plains of south west Victoria, and in Tasmania. It is a small, rabbit sized marsupial weighing less than 1 kg with a short tail and three to four whitish bars across the rump. It lives for just two to three years and is not...
, Perameles gunnii - Long-nosed BandicootLong-nosed BandicootThe Long-nosed Bandicoot is a species of bandicoot found in Australia. It is the largest member of its genus, which also includes the Western Barred Bandicoot, the Eastern Barred Bandicoot and the Desert Bandicoot....
, Perameles nasuta
Thylacomyidae
- BilbyBilbyBilbies are desert-dwelling marsupial omnivores; they are members of the order Peramelemorphia. Before European colonisation of Australia, there were two species. One became extinct in the 1950s; the other survives but remains endangered....
, Macrotis lagotis - Lesser BilbyLesser BilbyThe Lesser Bilby , also known as the Yallara, the Lesser Rabbit-eared Bandicoot or the White-tailed Rabbit-eared Bandicoot, was a rabbit-like marsupial. The species was first described by Oldfield Thomas as "Peregale leucura" in 1887 from a single specimen from a collection of mammals of the...
†, Macrotis leucura - extinct
Notoryctidae
- Northern Marsupial MoleMarsupial moleMarsupial moles is a family of marsupials of the order Notoryctemorphia, consisting of only two extant species:* Notoryctes typhlops * Notoryctes caurinus ...
, Notoryctes caurinus - Southern Marsupial MoleMarsupial moleMarsupial moles is a family of marsupials of the order Notoryctemorphia, consisting of only two extant species:* Notoryctes typhlops * Notoryctes caurinus ...
, Notoryctes typhlops
Vombatidae
- Northern Hairy-nosed WombatNorthern Hairy-nosed WombatThe Northern Hairy-nosed Wombat , also known as the Yaminon, is one of three species of wombats. It is one of the rarest large mammals in the world and is critically endangered...
, Lasiorhinus krefftii - Southern Hairy-nosed WombatSouthern Hairy-nosed WombatThe Southern Hairy-nosed Wombat is one of three species of wombats. It is found in scattered areas of semi-arid scrub and mallee from the eastern Nullarbor Plain to the New South Wales border area. It is the smallest of all three wombat species. The young often do not survive dry seasons...
, Lasiorhinus latifrons - Common WombatCommon WombatThe common wombat , also known as the coarse-haired wombat or bare-nosed wombat, is a marsupial, one of three species of wombats and the only one in the genus Vombatus. The common wombat grows to an average of long and a weight of .- Taxonomy :The common wombat was first described by George Shaw...
, Vombatus ursinus
PhalangeridaePhalangeridaePhalangeridae is a family of nocturnal marsupials native to Australia and New Guinea, including the cuscuses, brushtail possums, and their close relatives...
- Southern Common CuscusSouthern Common CuscusThe Southern Common Cuscus is also known as Australian Cuscus, Grey Cuscus, Grey Phalanger, and To-ili. An arboreal marsupial, it is endemic to Australia , southern New Guinea and possibly the Aru Islands. Until recently, it was considered conspecific with P. intercastellanus, and before that also...
, Phalanger mimicus - Common Spotted CuscusCommon Spotted CuscusThe Common Spotted Cuscus is a cuscus, a marsupial that lives in the Cape York region of Australia, New Guinea, and nearby smaller islands.- Description :...
, Spilocuscus maculatus - Northern Brushtail PossumNorthern Brushtail PossumThe Northern Brushtail Possum is a nocturnal marsupial inhabiting northern Australia. It is closely related to the Short-eared Possum, Mountain Brushtail Possum, Coppery Brushtail Possum, and the Common Brushtail Possum, the other four species of its genus.- Appearance :Its fur is a grey in...
, Trichosurus arnhemensis - Short-eared PossumShort-eared PossumThe Short-eared Possum is a species of marsupial in the Phalangeridae family. It is endemic to Australia.Found north of Sydney the species was once classed as a Mountain Brushtail Possum for which is its closest relative....
, Trichosurus caninus - Mountain Brushtail PossumMountain Brushtail PossumThe Mountain Brushtail Possum, or Southern Bobuck , is a nocturnal, semi-arboreal marsupial of the family Phalangeridae native to southeastern Australia...
, Trichosurus cunninghami - Coppery Brushtail PossumCoppery Brushtail PossumThe Coppery Brushtail Possum is a species of marsupial possum in the family Phalangeridae. Coppery Brushtails are found within the Atherton Tablelands area of Queensland, in northeastern Australia. These mammals inhabit rainforest ecosystems, living within the tree canopy. Though they have a...
, Trichosurus johnstonii - Common Brushtail PossumCommon Brushtail PossumThe Common Brushtail Possum is a nocturnal, semi-arboreal marsupial of the family Phalangeridae, it is native to Australia, and the largest of the possums.Like most possums, the Common Brushtail is nocturnal...
, Trichosurus vulpecula - Scaly-tailed PossumScaly-tailed PossumThe Scaly-tailed Possum or the Ilangnalya is found in northwestern Australia. It is restricted to the Kimberley region in Western Australia...
, Wyulda squamicaudata
Burramyidae
- Mountain Pygmy PossumMountain Pygmy PossumThe Mountain Pygmy Possum is a small, mouse-sized nocturnal marsupial of Australia found in dense alpine rock screes and boulder fields, mainly southern Victoria and around Mount Kosciuszko in Kosciuszko National Park in New South Wales at elevations from 1300 to 2230 m...
, Burramys parvus - Long-tailed Pygmy PossumLong-tailed Pygmy PossumThe Long-tailed Pygmy Possum is a diprotodont marsupial found in the rainforests of northern Australia, Indonesia and New Guinea...
, Cercartetus caudatus - Southwestern Pygmy PossumSouthwestern Pygmy PossumThe southwestern pygmy possum , commonly known as the western pygmy possum or the mundarda, is a small marsupial found in Australia...
, Cercartetus concinnus - Tasmanian Pygmy PossumTasmanian Pygmy PossumThe Tasmanian pygmy possum , also known as the little pygmy possum, is the world's smallest possum. It was first described by Oldfield Thomas in 1888, after he identified that a museum specimen labelled as an eastern pygmy possum in fact represented a species then unknown to science...
, Cercartetus lepidus - Eastern Pygmy PossumEastern Pygmy PossumThe Eastern Pygmy Possum is a diprotodont marsupial of south-eastern Australia. Occurring from southern Queensland to eastern South Australia and also Tasmania, it is found in a range of habitats, including rainforest, sclerophyll forest, woodland and heath.This species is very small, weighing...
, Cercartetus nanus
PetauridaePetauridaeThe family Petauridae includes 11 medium-sized possum species: four striped possums, the six species wrist-winged gliders in genus Petaurus, and Leadbeater's Possum which has only vestigal gliding membranes...
- Striped PossumStriped PossumThe Striped Possum is a member of the Petauridae family, one of the marsupial families. The species is black with three white stripes running head to tail, and its head has white stripes that form a 'Y' shape...
, Dactylopsila trivirgata - Leadbeater's PossumLeadbeater's PossumLeadbeater's Possum is an endangered possum restricted to small pockets of remaining old growth mountain ash forests in the central highlands of Victoria north-east of Melbourne...
, Gymnobelideus leadbeateri - Yellow-bellied GliderYellow-bellied GliderThe Yellow-bellied Glider is an arboreal and nocturnal gliding possum that lives in a narrow range of native eucalypt forests down eastern Australia, reaching from northern Queensland to Victoria.-Habitat:...
, Petaurus australis - Sugar GliderSugar GliderThe sugar glider is a small gliding possum originating from the marsupial family.The sugar glider is native to eastern and northern mainland Australia and is also native to New Guinea and the Bismarck Archipelago.- Habitat :Sugar gliders can be found all throughout the northern and eastern parts of...
, Petaurus breviceps - Mahogany GliderMahogany GliderThe mahogany glider is an endangered gliding possum native to a small region of coastal Queensland.-Appearance:A nocturnal arboreal marsupial, the mahogany glider closely resembles the sugar glider, the squirrel glider and the yellow-bellied glider., but is noticeably larger than any of its...
, Petaurus gracilis - Squirrel GliderSquirrel GliderThe Squirrel Glider is a nocturnal gliding possum, one of the wrist-winged gliders of the genus Petaurus.-Habitat:...
, Petaurus norfolcensis
PseudocheiridaePseudocheiridaePseudocheiridae is a family of arboreal marsupials containing 17 extant species of ringtailed possums and close relatives. They are found in forested areas and shrublands throughout Australia and New Guinea.-Characteristics:...
- Lemuroid Ringtail Possum, Hemibelideus lemuroides
- Greater GliderGreater GliderThe Greater Glider is a small gliding marsupial found in Australia. It is not closely related to the Petaurus group of gliding marsupials but instead to the Lemur-like Ringtail Possum , with which it shares the subfamily Hemibelideinae.The Greater Glider is nocturnal and is a solitary herbivore...
, Petauroides volans - Rock Ringtail Possum, Petropseudes dahli
- Western Ringtail PossumWestern Ringtail PossumThe Western Ringtail Possum or Ngwayir is a possum found in Western Australia, regarded as a subspecies of Common Ringtail Possum, or as a separate species.-Description:...
, Pseudocheirus occidentalis - Common Ringtail PossumCommon Ringtail PossumThe common ringtail possum is an Australian marsupial. It lives in a variety of habitats and eats a variety of leaves of both native and introduced plants, as well as flowers and fruits. These dietary factors have, over time, aided burgeoning introduced populations in New Zealand...
, Pseudocheirus peregrinus - Green Ringtail PossumGreen Ringtail PossumThe Green Ringtail Possum is a species of ringtail possum found only in northern Australia. This makes it unique in its genus, all other members of which are found in New Guinea or nearby islands...
, Pseudochirops archeri - Daintree River Ringtail Possum, Pseudochirulus cinereus
- Herbert River Ringtail PossumHerbert River Ringtail PossumThe Herbert River Ringtail Possum is a species of possum found in northeastern Queensland, Australia. It a dark brown to black species, sometimes with a white belly....
, Pseudochirulus herbertensis
PotoroidaePotoroidaeThe marsupial family Potoroidae includes the bettongs, potoroos, and two of the rat-kangaroos. All are rabbit-sized, brown, jumping marsupials and resemble a large rodent or a very small wallaby.- Characteristics :...
- Rufous Bettong, Aepyprymnus rufescens
- Southern Bettong, Bettongia gaimardi
- Burrowing Bettong, Bettongia lesueur
- WoylieWoylieThe Woylie , also known as the Brush-tailed Bettong, is a small marsupial that belongs to the genus Bettongia. It is endemic to Australia...
, Bettongia penicillata) - Northern BettongNorthern BettongThe Northern Bettong is a small potoroid marsupial which is restricted to some areas of mixed open Eucalyptus woodlands and Allocasuarina forests bordering rainforests in far northeastern Queensland, Australia....
, Bettongia tropica - Desert Rat-kangarooDesert Rat-kangarooThe Desert Rat-kangaroo , also called the Buff-nosed Rat-kangaroo or the Plains Rat-kangaroo, is an extinct marsupial that lived in a sand ridge and gibber plain habitat in southwestern Queensland and northeastern South Australia. It was the size of a small rabbit...
, Caloprymnus campestris - Gilbert's PotorooGilbert's PotorooGilbert's Potoroo is an Australian marsupial, sometimes called a rat-kangaroo, that is critically endangered. It is described as pointed in the face and about the size of a rabbit. It lives in a restricted area on the southwest coast of Western Australia. Gilbert's Potoroos now exist on Bald...
, Potorous gilbertii - Long-footed PotorooLong-footed PotorooThe Long-footed Potoroo is a species of potoroo found in southeastern Australia, in a small area around the coastal border between New South Wales and Victoria. It was discovered in 1967 when an adult male was caught in a dog trap in the forest southwest of Bonang, Victoria...
, Potorous longipes - Broad-faced PotorooBroad-faced PotorooThe Broad-faced Potoroo is an extinct species of marsupial that once lived in Australia. The first specimen was collected in 1839 and described by John Gould in 1844, but even then it was rare and only a handful of specimens were ever collected, the last in 1875...
, Potorous platyops - Long-nosed PotorooLong-nosed PotorooThe Long-nosed Potoroo is a species of Australian potoroo. It is listed as Endangered in Victoria , Vulnerable in Queensland and nationally , although the IUCN lists it as Lower Risk.At first glance the Long-nosed Potoroo with its...
, Potorous tridactylus
Macropodidae
- Bennett's Tree-kangarooBennett's Tree-kangarooBennett's Tree-kangaroo, or Dendrolagus bennettianus, is a large tree-kangaroo. Males can weigh from 11.5 kg up to almost 14 kg , while the females range between about 8 to 10.6 kg...
, Dendrolagus bennettianus - Lumholtz's Tree-kangarooLumholtz's Tree-kangarooLumholtz's Tree-kangaroo is a heavy-bodied tree-kangaroo found in rain forests of the Atherton Tableland Region of Queensland. Its status is classified as Least Concern by the IUCN, although local authorities classify it as rare...
, Dendrolagus lumholtzi - Central Hare-wallaby, Lagorchestes asomatus
- Spectacled Hare-wallabySpectacled Hare-wallabyThe Spectacled Hare-wallaby is a species of macropod found in Australia and New Guinea. In Australia, a small sub-population is found on Barrow Island, while the mainland type is widespread, though in decline, across northern regions of the country.-Description:A species of Lagorchestes,...
, Lagorchestes conspicillatus - MalaRufous Hare-wallabyThe rufous hare-wallaby , also known as the Mala, is a small macropod found in Australia. It was formerly widely distributed across the western half of the continent but is now confined to Bernier Island and Dorre Island Islands off Western Australia...
, Lagorchestes hirsutus - Eastern Hare-wallabyEastern Hare-wallabyThe Eastern Hare-wallaby , once also known as the Common Hare Wallaby, is an extinct species of wallaby that was native to southwestern Australia. It was first described by John Gould in 1841.-Description:...
, Lagorchestes leporides - Banded Hare-wallabyBanded Hare-wallabyThe Banded Hare-wallaby or Mernine is a marsupial that is currently found on the Islands of Bernier and Dorre off western Australia. A small population has recently been established on Faure Island and it appears to have been successful...
, Lagostrophus fasciatus - Agile WallabyAgile WallabyThe Agile Wallaby , also known as the Sandy Wallaby, is a species of wallaby found in northern Australia and New Guinea. It is the most common wallaby in Australia's north....
, Macropus agilis - Antilopine KangarooAntilopine KangarooThe Antilopine Kangaroo sometimes called the Antilopine Wallaroo or the Antilopine Wallaby, is a species of macropod found in northern Australia: in Cape York Peninsula in Queensland, the Top End of the Northern Territory, and the Kimberley region of Western Australia...
, Macropus antilopinus - Black Wallaroo, Macropus bernardus
- Black-striped WallabyBlack-striped WallabyThe Black-striped Wallaby , also known as the Scrub Wallaby, is a medium-sized wallaby found in Australia, from Townsville in Queensland to Narrabri in New South Wales. In New South Wales it is only found west of the Great Dividing Range. It is decreasing in these areas, but is not classified as...
, Macropus dorsalis - Tammar WallabyTammar WallabyThe Tammar Wallaby , also known as the Dama Wallaby or Darma Wallaby, is a small member of the kangaroo family and is the model species for research on kangaroos and marsupials. It is found on offshore islands on the South Australian and Western Australian coast...
, Macropus eugenii - Western Grey KangarooWestern Grey KangarooThe Western Grey Kangaroo is a large and very common kangaroo or macropod, found across almost the entire southern part of Australia, from just south of Shark Bay to coastal South Australia, western Victoria, and the entire Murray-Darling Basin in New South Wales and Queensland...
, Macropus fuliginosus - Eastern Grey KangarooEastern Grey KangarooThe Eastern Grey Kangaroo is a marsupial found in southern and eastern Australia, with a population of several million. It is also known as the Great Grey Kangaroo and the Forester Kangaroo...
, Macropus giganteus - Toolache WallabyToolache WallabyThe Toolache Wallaby or Grey's Wallaby is an extinct species of wallaby from south-eastern South Australia and South-western Victoria. Many people considered it to be the most elegant, graceful and swift species of kangaroo. It had fine fur with alternating bands of darker and lighter grey across...
†, Macropus greyii - extinct - Western Brush WallabyWestern Brush WallabyThe Western Brush Wallaby , also known as the Black-gloved Wallaby, is a species of wallaby found in southwestern Western Australia. The main threat towards it seems to be predation by the introduced Red Fox...
, Macropus irma - Parma WallabyParma WallabyThe Parma Wallaby was first described by British naturalist John Gould in about 1840. A shy, cryptic creature of the wet sclerophyll forests of southern New South Wales, it was never common and, even before the end of the 19th century, it was believed to be extinct...
, Macropus parma - Whiptail WallabyWhiptail WallabyThe Whiptail Wallaby , also known as the Pretty-faced Wallaby, is a species of wallaby found in eastern Australia. It is locally common from Cooktown in Queensland to near Grafton in New South Wales.-Description:...
, Macropus parryi - WallarooWallarooA Wallaroo is any of three closely related species of moderately large macropod, intermediate in size between the kangaroos and the wallabies. The name "wallaroo" is a portmanteau of wallaby and kangaroo. The term is not generally used by Australians...
or Euro, Macropus robustus - Red-necked WallabyRed-necked WallabyThe Red-necked Wallaby is a medium-sized marsupial macropod, common in the more temperate and fertile parts of eastern Australia, including Tasmania.- Description :...
, Macropus rufogriseus - Red KangarooRed KangarooThe Red Kangaroo is the largest of all kangaroos, the largest mammal native to Australia, and the largest surviving marsupial. It is found across mainland Australia, avoiding only the more fertile areas in the south, the east coast, and the northern rainforests.-Description:This species is a very...
, Macropus rufus - Bridled Nail-tail WallabyBridled Nail-tail WallabyBridled Nail-tail Wallaby refers to Onychogalea fraenata, an endangered species of marsupial. It is a small wallaby found in three isolated areas in Queensland, Australia, and whose population is declining...
, Onychogalea fraenata - Crescent Nail-tail WallabyCrescent Nail-tail WallabyThe Crescent Nail-tail Wallaby was a nail-tail wallaby that lived in the woodlands and scrubs of the west and centre of Australia. It had silky fur and, like other nail-tail wallabies, had a horny spur at the tip of its tail. It was the size of a hare and was the smallest nail-tail wallaby at...
†, Onychogalea lunata - extinct - Northern Nail-tail WallabyNorthern Nail-tail WallabyThe Northern Nail-tail Wallaby , also known as the Sandy Nail-tail Wallaby, is a species of macropod found in Queensland, Western Australia and Northern Territory. Unlike the Bridled Nail-tail Wallaby , the Northern Nail-tail Wallaby is not a threatened species. The only other member of the genus,...
, Onychogalea unguifera - Allied Rock-wallabyAllied Rock-wallabyThe Allied Rock-wallaby is a species of rock-wallaby found in northeastern Queensland, Australia. It is very similar to six other species of rock-wallaby found in this area, including the Cape York Rock-wallaby , the Unadorned Rock-wallaby , and Herbert's Rock-wallaby The Allied Rock-wallaby...
, Petrogale assimilis - Short-eared Rock-wallabyShort-eared Rock-wallabyThe Short-eared Rock-wallaby is a species of rock-wallaby found in northern Australia, in the northernmost parts of Northern Territory and Western Australia...
, Petrogale brachyotis - MonjonMonjonThe Monjon , also known as the Warabi and Burbridge's Rock Weasel, is the smallest of the many species of rock-wallaby found in Australia. It is found in areas of the Kimberley region of Western Australia and also on some islands in the Bonaparte Archipelago.The Monjon was described in 1978, having...
, Petrogale burbidgei - Cape York Rock-wallabyCape York Rock-wallabyThe Cape York Rock-wallaby is a species of rock-wallaby restricted to Cape York Peninsula in northeastern Queensland, Australia. It is a member of a group of seven very closely related rock-wallabies, all found in northeastern Queensland, also including the Mount Claro Rock-wallaby , the Mareeba...
, Petrogale coenensis - NabarlekNabarlekThe Nabarlek , also known as the Pygmy Rock-wallaby or the Little Rock-wallaby, is a very small species of macropod found in northern Australia...
, Petrogale concinna - Godman's Rock-wallabyGodman's Rock-wallabyGodman's Rock-wallaby is a diprotodont marsupial, and a rather typical rock-wallaby. It is found in northern and north-eastern Queensland, Australia. This rock-wallaby is found in low open forest, open scrub, or montane regions, often near the coast. It shelters in rocky terrain adjacent to...
, Petrogale godmani - Herbert's Rock-wallabyHerbert's Rock-wallabyHerbert's Rock-wallaby is a member of a group of seven very closely related rock-wallabies found in northeastern Queensland, Australia. Herbert's is the most southerly and most widespread of the group....
, Petrogale herberti - Unadorned Rock-wallabyUnadorned Rock-wallabyThe Unadorned Rock-wallaby is a member of a group of closely related rock-wallabies found in northeastern Queensland, Australia. It is paler than most of its relatives and even plainer, hence its common name....
, Petrogale inornata - Black-flanked Rock-wallabyBlack-flanked Rock-wallabyThe Black-flanked Rock-wallaby , also known as the Black-footed Rock-wallaby or Warru, is a kind of wallaby, one of several rock-wallabies in the genus Petrogale.-Description:...
, Petrogale lateralis - Purple-necked Rock-wallabyPurple-necked Rock-wallabyThe Purple-necked Rock-wallaby was first classified in 1924 by Albert Sherbourne Le Souef, then director of the Taronga Zoo in Sydney, Australia, who noted a strange purple colouration around the neck as well as skull differences separating it from other rock-wallaby species...
, Petrogale purpureicollis - Mareeba Rock-wallabyMareeba Rock-wallabyThe Mareeba Rock-wallaby is a species of rock-wallaby found in northeastern Queensland, Australia. It is a member of a group of seven very closely related species which also include the Cape York Rock-wallaby , the Unadorned Rock-wallaby and the Allied Rock-wallaby The Mareeba Rock-wallaby...
, Petrogale mareeba - Brush-tailed Rock-wallabyBrush-tailed Rock-wallabyThe Brush-tailed Rock-wallaby or Small-eared Rock-wallaby is a kind of wallaby, one of several rock-wallabies in the genus Petrogale. It inhabits rock piles and cliff lines along the Great Dividing Range from about 100 km north-west of Brisbane to northern Victoria, in vegetation ranging from...
, Petrogale penicillata - Proserpine Rock-wallabyProserpine Rock-wallabyThe Proserpine Rock-wallaby is a species of rock-wallaby restricted to a small area in the in Conway National Park, Dryander National Park, Gloucester Island National Park, and around the town of Airlie Beach, all in Whitsunday Shire in Queensland, Australia...
, Petrogale persephone - Rothschild's Rock-wallabyRothschild's Rock-wallabyRothschild's Rock-wallaby , sometimes known as the Roebourne Rock-wallaby, is a species of macropod found in Western Australia, in the Pilbara district and the Dampier Archipelago...
, Petrogale rothschildi - Sharman's Rock-wallaby, Petrogale sharmani
- Yellow-footed Rock-wallabyYellow-footed Rock-wallabyThe Yellow-footed Rock-wallaby is a member of the macropod family ....
, Petrogale xanthopus - QuokkaQuokkaThe Quokka , the only member of the genus Setonix, is a small macropod about the size of a domestic cat. Like other marsupials in the macropod family , the Quokka is herbivorous and mainly nocturnal...
, Setonix brachyurus - Tasmanian PademelonTasmanian PademelonThe Tasmanian Pademelon , also known as the Rufous-bellied Pademelon or Red-bellied Pademelon, is the sole endemic species of pademelon found in Tasmania, and formerly throughout south-eastern Australia...
, Thylogale billardierii - Red-legged PademelonRed-legged PademelonThe Red-legged Pademelon is a species of small macropod found on the northeastern coast of Australia and in New Guinea. In Australia it has a scattered distribution from the tip of Cape York Peninsula in Queensland to around Tamworth in New South Wales...
, Thylogale stigmatica - Red-necked PademelonRed-necked PademelonThe Red-necked Pademelon is a forest-dwelling marsupial living in the eastern coastal region of Australia. Mainly nocturnal, the Red-necked Pademelon is very shy and generally inhabits temperate forests near grassland, hiding in the forests by day and emerging into the grasslands to graze in the...
, Thylogale thetis - Swamp WallabySwamp WallabyThe Swamp Wallaby is a small macropod marsupial of eastern Australia. This wallaby is also commonly known as the Black Wallaby, with other names including Black-tailed Wallaby, Fern Wallaby, Black Pademelon, Stinker , and Black Stinker...
, Wallabia bicolor
See also
- List of mammals of Australia
- List of bats of Australia
- List of rodents of Australia
- List of placental mammals introduced to Australia
- List of marine mammals of Australia