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Family: Phalangeridae - English
URL: http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/chordata/mammalia/diprotodontia/phalangeri

Members of this marsupial family make up a fairly diverse group of around 18 species placed in 6 genera. They inhabit Australia, and New Guinea and several smaller islands. These are medium-sized animals with a stocky and powerful body, short face, eyes directed forward, and a prominent rhinarium.

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Family: Myrmecobiidae - English
URL: http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/chordata/mammalia/dasyuromorphia/myrmecobi

The Myrmecobiidae contains a single species, the numbat (Myrmecobius fasciatus). Numbats are found in southern Australia. Once widespread, they have been reduced to few isolated populations by habitat destruction and predation by the introduced red fox.

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Possums and Cuscuses - English
URL: http://www.press.jhu.edu/books/walker/marsupialia.phalangeridae.html

This family of 6 living genera and 20 species occurs in Australia, Tasmania, and New Guinea and on islands from Sulawesi to the Solomons.

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Marsupial "Mice" and "Cats," and Tasmanian Devil - English
URL: http://www.press.jhu.edu/books/walker/marsupialia.dasyuridae.html

This family of 17 Recent genera and 58 species occurs in Australia, Tasmania, New Guinea, and some adjacent islands. The Dasyuridae are considered to be closely related to the Didelphidae, and both families have certain primitive characters similar to those of the early marsupials.

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Numbat, or Banded Anteater - English
URL: http://www.press.jhu.edu/books/walker/marsupialia.myrmecobiidae.myrmecobius.html

The single known genus and species, Myrmecobius fasciatus, occurred in suitable areas from southwestern Western Australia through northern South Australia to southwestern New South Wales (Ride 1970). This genus sometimes has been placed in the family Dasyuridae, but the sum of available information indicates that it represents a distinct family (Archer and Kirsch 1977).

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The Marsupial Mole - English
URL: http://members.iweb.net.au/~jcwhitt/MarsMole_journ.htm

This animal consists of two species and is an example of remarkable convergent evolution. Although the Australian Marsupial Mole is not even distantly related to the placental moles; the only thing they have in common is the fact that they are all mammals, the Marsupial Mole has followed a similar evolutionary path making them very alike in appearance. The Marsupial Mole and the African Golden Mole are very alike.

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Phascolarctidae (Koala) - English
URL: http://www.thebigzoo.com/zoo/Phascolarctidae.asp

The koala is the only species in this family. Koalas in northern Australia have smaller bodies, shorted hair, and a lighter coat color than koalas in southern Australia. This change is very gradual, so the classification of the three subspecies may be vague.

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Koala Resources for Students on the World Wide Web - English
URL: http://www.stemnet.nf.ca/CITE/koala.htm

This site on koalas is designed for primary and elementary students and teachers. It presents a list of links to web pages related to koalas.

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Koala - Spanish
URL: http://www.damisela.com/zoo/mam/marsupialia/phascolarctidae/

El Koala es un animalito australiano. Este atractivo marsupial sólo se alimenta de hojas y cortesa de eucalipto.

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Bilbies, or Rabbit-eared Bandicoots - English
URL: http://www.press.jhu.edu/books/walker/marsupialia.thylacomyidae.macrotis.html

The single Recent genus, Macrotis, contains two species (Ride 1970): M. lagotis, formerly from Western Australia to southwestern Queensland and New South Wales; M. leucura, central Australia.

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Koala - English
URL: http://www.press.jhu.edu/books/walker/marsupialia.phascolarctidae.phascolarctos.

The single living genus and species, Phascolarctos cinereus, has a modern range extending from southeastern Queensland through eastern New South Wales and Victoria to southeastern South Australia (Ride 1970). During the late Pleistocene the koala also occurred in southwestern Western Australia, where there still seems to be suitable habitat for it.

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Gliding, Ring-tailed, and Striped Possums - English
URL: http://www.press.jhu.edu/books/walker/marsupialia.petauridae.html

This family of 6 Recent genera and 23 species inhabits Australia, Tasmania, New Guinea, and certain nearby islands. The members of the Petauridae sometimes have been placed in the family Phalangeridae.

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Bandicoots and Bilbies - Order Peramelemorphia - English
URL: http://www.angelfire.com/mo2/animals1/mammal/bandicoot.html

This small order of mammals consists of some lesser known marsupials -- the bandicoots and bilbies, which are native to New Guinea and Australia.

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xrefer - duck-billed platypus - English
URL: http://www.xrefer.com/entry/502401

An aquatic monotreme mammal, Ornithorhynchus anatinus, of Australia and Tasmania. Platypuses grow to 55 cm long and have webbed feet. They use their broad flat toothless beak for sieving invertebrates from stream bottoms.

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Bandicoots - English
URL: http://www.press.jhu.edu/books/walker/marsupialia.peramelidae.html

This family of 7 Recent genera and 21 species occurs in Australia, Tasmania, New Guinea, and certain nearby islands. The sequence of genera presented here follows that of Kirsch and Calaby (1977).

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Life Forms - BANDICOOT - RABBIT - English
URL: http://www.speciescentral.com/specdata/mammal/12608.html

Common or Greater Rabbit-Bandicoot (Macrotis lagotis) was once very abundant in Australia. It is now found only in scattered populations in western Australia, the north country and Queensland. Its habitat is dry areas, i.e., shrubby grassland, savannahs and woods.

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The Bilby (Macrotis lagotis) - English
URL: http://www.upnaway.com/~rdavis/western/MAMMALS/macrotis.htm

The Bilby, Ninu or Dalgyte, is one of Australia's most attractive mammals. Its hard to be impartial when talking about the Bilby, and its "cute" features have captured the hearts of many Australians.

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Duck-billed Platypus - English
URL: http://www.press.jhu.edu/books/walker/monotremata.ornithorhynchidae.ornithorhync

The single living genus and species, Ornithorhynchus anatinus, inhabits freshwater streams, lakes, and lagoons of eastern Australia, in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, and Tasmania (Griffiths 1978).

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Survival: Spiny Anteater or Echindna - English
URL: http://www.lineone.net/learning/survival/echidna.html

The Spiny Anteater is found in New Guinea, eastern Australia and Tasmania in grassland, scrub, bush and open woodland.From an evolutionary point of view the echidna is a fascinating creature.

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About Kangaroo - English
URL: http://www.ozramp.net.au/~senani/kangaroo.htm

Description of an hopping Australian marsupial. Told in vivid prose and brilliant pictures.

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