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List of mammals of South Australia

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This is a list of mammals of South Australia. It includes all mammals recorded in South Australia since European settlement, including some known only from subfossil remains, and including naturalised alien species.

Except where otherwise referenced, this list is based upon Kemper, Catherine; Reardon, Terry; Queale, Lynette (2000). "Mammals". In Robinson, A. C.; Casperson, K. D.; Hutchinson, M. N. (eds.). A List of the Vertebrates of South Australia. Biological Survey of South Australia..[1]

Subclass Prototheria

Subclass Marsupialia

  • Myrmecobius fasciatus (numbat) — Original South Australian populations are extinct, but the species has since been re-introduced.

Family Dasyuridae

Subfamily Dasyurinae
Subfamily Phascogalinae
Subfamily Planigalinae
Subfamily Sminthopsinae

Family †Chaeropodidae

Subfamily Peramelinae
Subfamily Thylacomyinae
  • Phascolarctos cinereus (koala) — Original South Australian populations are extinct, but the species has since been re-introduced.

Family Vombatidae

Family Potoroidae

Family Petauridae

Subclass Eutheria

Family Molossidae
  • Mormopterus spp. (southern freetail-bats) — Three forms, soon to be published as species, commonly known as inland freetail-bat (short penis form), eastern freetail-bat (long penis form) and hairy rostrum freetail-bat.
  • Tadarida australis (white-striped freetail-bat)
Subfamily Miniopterinae
Subfamily Nytophilinae
Subfamily Vespertilioninae

Order Carnivora

Family Canidae

Family Felidae

Family Otariidae

Subfamily Arctocephalinae
Subfamily Otariinae

Family Phocidae

Order Cetacea

Suborder Mysticeti

Family Balaenidae

Suborder Odontoceti

Family Kogiidae
Family Ziphiidae

Family Equidae

Family Suidae

Family Camelidae

Family Cervidae

Family Bovidae

Order Rodentia

Family Muridae

Subfamily Hydromyinae
Subfamily Murinae

Family Leporidae

References

  1. ^ Kemper, Catherine; Reardon, Terry; Queale, Lynette (2000). "Mammals". In Robinson, A. C.; Casperson, K. D.; Hutchinson, M. N. (eds.). A List of the Vertebrates of South Australia. Biological Survey of South Australia.
  2. ^ a b Robinson, A. C.; Kemper, C. M.; Medlin, G. C.; Watts, C. H. S. (2000). "The rodents of South Australia". Wildlife Research. 27 (4): 379–404. doi:10.1071/WR97044.