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List of monotremes and marsupials of Australia

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[1] and Van Dyck and Strahan,[2] with some input from the global list, which is derived from Gardner and Groves.[3][4]

This is a sub-list of the list of mammals of Australia.

Conservation status listed follows the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (v. 2013.2; data current at 5 March 2014[5]):
EX - extinct
EW - extinct in the wild
CR - critically endangered
EN - endangered
VU - vulnerable
NT - near threatened
LC - least concern
DD - data deficient
NE - not evaluated

IUCN conservation statusesExtinctionExtinctionExtinct in the wildCritically EndangeredEndangered speciesVulnerable speciesNear ThreatenedThreatened speciesLeast ConcernLeast Concern

Monotremata (monotremes) edit

Ornithorhynchidae edit

Tachyglossidae edit

Marsupialia (marsupials) edit

Dasyuromorphia (marsupial carnivores) edit

Thylacinidae edit

  • Thylacine, Thylacinus cynocephalus EX - extinct

Dasyuridae edit

 
Tasmanian devil

Myrmecobiidae edit

  • Numbat, Myrmecobius fasciatus EN

Peramelemorphia (bandicoots, bilbies) edit

Chaeropodidae edit

Peroryctidae edit

Peramelidae edit

Thylacomyidae edit

Notoryctemorphia (marsupial moles) edit

Notoryctidae edit

Diprotodontia edit

Vombatiformes (wombats, koalas) edit

Vombatidae edit
Phascolarctidae edit
  • Koala, Phascolarctos cinereus VU

Phalangeriformes (possums, gliders) edit

Phalangeridae edit
Burramyidae edit
Tarsipedidae edit
Petauridae edit
Pseudocheiridae edit
 
Lemuroid ringtail possum
Acrobatidae edit

Macropodiformes (kangaroos, wallabies) edit

Hypsiprymnodontidae edit
Potoroidae edit
 
Rufous bettong
Macropodidae edit
 
Red kangaroo

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ Menkhorst, P. and Knight, F. (2001) A Field Guide to the Mammals of Australia, Oxford University Press, Melbourne ISBN 0-19-550870-X
  2. ^ Van Dyke, S. and Strahan, R. (eds.) (2008) The Mammals of Australia, Third Edition, New Holland / Queensland Museum, Brisbane ISBN 978-1-877069-25-3
  3. ^ Groves, C. P. (2005). Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 1–2, 22–70. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. OCLC 62265494.
  4. ^ Gardner, A. (2005). Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 3–21. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
  5. ^ "The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species". International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources. Retrieved 5 March 2014.

External links edit

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