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The spinifex hopping mouse ( Notomys alexis ), also known as the tarkawara or tarrkawarra, occurs throughout the central and western Australian arid zones, occupying both spinifex -covered sand flats and stabilised sand dunes, and loamy mulga and melaleuca flats. The population fluctuates greatly: in normal years it is sparsely distributed and ...
Giant white-tailed rat. Godman's rock-wallaby. Golden-tipped bat. Gould's long-eared bat. Gould's wattled bat. Grassland mosaic-tailed rat. Greater bilby. Green ringtail possum. Grey-headed flying fox.
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 ...
The red kangaroo ( Osphranter rufus[ 5]) is the largest of all kangaroos, the largest terrestrial mammal native to Australia, and the largest extant marsupial. It is found across mainland Australia, except for the more fertile areas, such as southern Western Australia, the eastern and southeastern coasts, and the rainforests along the northern ...
When we think of kangaroos, we think of a hopping mammal that lives in Australia and occasionally boxes world-famous movie directors. Now, a new study finds that an extinct group of the kangaroo ...
Placental mammals. The dingo was the first placental mammal introduced to Australia by humans. Australia has indigenous placental mammals from two orders: the bats, order Chiroptera, represented by six families, and the mice and rats, order Rodentia, family Muridae. Bats and rodents are relatively recent arrivals to Australia.
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.
Eastern bettong. The eastern bettong ( Bettongia gaimardi ), also known as the southern or Tasmanian bettong, is a small, hopping, rat-like mammal native to grassy forests of southeastern Australia and Tasmania. A member of the rat-kangaroo family ( Potoroidae ), it is active at night and feeds on fungi and plant roots.