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 non-feral introduced 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[edit]
Order Monotremata[edit]
Family Ornithorhynchidae[edit]
- Ornithorhynchus anatinus (platypus)
Family Tachyglossidae[edit]
- Tachyglossus aculeatus (short-beaked echidna)
Subclass Marsupialia[edit]
Order Dasyuromorphia[edit]
Family Myrmecobiidae[edit]
- Myrmecobius fasciatus (numbat) reintroduced
Family Dasyuridae[edit]
- Subfamily Dasyurinae
- Dasycercus byrnei (kowari)
- Dasycercus cristicauda (mulgara)
- Dasyurus geoffroii (western quoll) locally extinct
- Dasyurus maculatus (tiger quoll) locally extinct
- Dasyurus viverrinus (eastern quoll) locally extinct
- Pseudantechinus macdonnellensis (fat-tailed pseudantechinus)
- Subfamily Phascogalinae
- Antechinus flavipes (yellow-footed antechinus)
- Antechinus minimus (swamp antechinus)
- Phascogale calura (red-tailed phascogale) locally extinct
- Phascogale tapoatafa (brush-tailed phascogale)
- Subfamily Planigalinae
- Ningaui ridei (Wonai ningaui)
- Ningaui yvonneae (southern ningaui)
- Planigale gilesi (Giles' planigale)
- Planigale cf. ingrami (long-tailed planigale)
- Planigale tenuirostris (narrow-nosed planigale)
- Subfamily Sminthopsinae
- Antechinomys laniger (kultarr)
- Sminthopsis aitkeni (Kangaroo Island dunnart)
- Sminthopsis crassicaudata (fat-tailed dunnart)
- Sminthopsis dolichura (little long-tailed dunnart)
- Sminthopsis hirtipes (hairy-footed dunnart)
- Sminthopsis macroura (stripe-faced dunnart)
- Sminthopsis murina (common dunnart)
- Sminthopsis ooldea (Ooldea dunnart)
- Sminthopsis psammophila (sandhill dunnart)
- Sminthopsis youngsoni (lesser hairy-footed dunnart)
Order Peramelemorphia[edit]
Family †Chaeropodidae[edit]
- †Chaeropus ecaudatus (pig-footed bandicoot)
Family Peramelidae[edit]
- Subfamily Peramelinae
- Isoodon auratus (golden bandicoot) locally extinct
- Isoodon obesulus (southern brown bandicoot)
- Perameles bougainville (western barred bandicoot) locally extinct
- †Perameles eremiana (desert bandicoot)
- Perameles gunnii (eastern barred bandicoot) locally extinct
- Subfamily Thylacomyinae
- Macrotis lagotis (bilby)
- †Macrotis leucura (lesser bilby)
Order Notoryctemorphia[edit]
Family Notoryctidae[edit]
- Notoryctes typhlops (marsupial mole)
Order Diprotodontia[edit]
Family Phascolarctidae[edit]
- Phascolarctos cinereus (koala) reintroduced
Family Vombatidae[edit]
- Lasiorhinus latifrons (southern hairy-nosed wombat)
- Vombatus ursinus (common wombat)
Family Phalangeridae[edit]
- Trichosurus vulpecula (common brushtail possum)
Family Potoroidae[edit]
- Bettongia lesueur (burrowing bettong)
- Bettongia penicillata (brush-tailed bettong)
- †Caloprymnus campestris (desert rat-kangaroo)
- †Potorous tridactylus (long-nosed potoroo)
Family Macropodidae[edit]
- Lagorchestes hirsutus (rufous hare-wallaby) locally extinct
- †Lagorchestes leporides (eastern hare-wallaby)
- Macropus fuliginosus (western grey kangaroo)
- Macropus giganteus (eastern grey kangaroo)
- Notamacropus eugenii (tammar wallaby) reintroduced
- N. e. decres
- N. e. eugenii reintroduced[2]
- †Notamacropus greyi (toolache wallaby)
- Notamacropus rufogriseus (red-necked wallaby)
- Osphranter robustus (euro)
- Osphranter rufus (red kangaroo)
- †Onychogalea lunata (crescent nailtail wallaby)
- Petrogale lateralis (black-footed rock-wallaby)
- P. l. pearsoni (Pearson Island rock-wallaby)
- Petrogale xanthopus (yellow-footed rock-wallaby)
- Thylogale billardierii (Tasmanian pademelon) locally extinct
- Wallabia bicolor (swamp wallaby)
Family Burramyidae[edit]
- Cercartetus concinnus (western pygmy-possum)
- Cercartetus lepidus (little pygmy-possum)
- Cercartetus nanus (eastern pygmy-possum)
Family Pseudocheiridae[edit]
- Pseudocheirus peregrinus (common ringtail possum)
Family Petauridae[edit]
- Petaurus australis (yellow-bellied glider)
- Petaurus notatus (Krefft's glider)[3][4]
- Petaurus norfolcensis (squirrel glider) locally extinct
Acrobatidae[edit]
- Acrobates pygmaeus (feathertail glider)
Subclass Eutheria[edit]
Order Chiroptera[edit]
Suborder Megachiroptera[edit]
Family Pteropodidae[edit]
- Pteropus poliocephalus (grey-headed flying-fox)
- Pteropus scapulatus (little red flying-fox)
Suborder Microchiroptera[edit]
Family Emballonuridae[edit]
- Saccolaimus flaviventris (yellow-bellied sheathtail bat)
- Taphozous hilli (sheathtail bat)
Family Megadermatidae[edit]
- Macroderma gigas (ghost bat) locally extinct
Family Molossidae[edit]
- Ozimops petersi (inland free-tailed bat)
- Ozimops planiceps (southern free-tailed bat)
- Ozimops ridei (eastern free-tailed bat)
- Tadarida australis (white-striped freetail-bat)
Family Vespertilionidae[edit]
- Subfamily Miniopterinae
- Minipterus schreibersii (large bentwing-bat)
- Subfamily Nytophilinae
- Nyctophilus geoffroyi (lesser long-eared bat)
- Nyctophilus gouldi (Gould's long-eared bat)
- Nyctophilus timoriensis (greater long-eared bat)
- Subfamily Vespertilioninae
- Chalinolobus gouldii (Gould's wattled bat)
- Chalinolobus morio (chocolate wattled bat)
- Chalinolobus picatus (little pied bat)
- Falsistrellus tasmaniensis (eastern falsistrelle)
- Myotis macropus (southern myotis)
- Scotorepens balstoni (inland broad-nosed bat)
- Scotorepens greyii (little broad-nosed bat)
- Vespadelus baverstocki (inland forest bat)
- Vespadelus darlingtoni (large forest bat)
- Vespadelus finlaysoni (Finlayson's cave bat)
- Vespadelus regulus (southern forest bat)
- Vespadelus vulturnus (little forest bat)
Order Carnivora[edit]
Family Canidae[edit]
- Canis familiaris dingo (dingo)
- Canis familiaris x C. f. dingo (dingo-domestic dog hybrid)[5][6]
- Vulpes vulpes (red fox) introduced
Family Otariidae[edit]
- Subfamily Arctocephalinae
- Arctocephalus pusillus (Australian fur-seal)
- Arctophoca forsteri (long-nosed fur-seal)
- Arctophoca tropicalis (subantarctic fur-seal)
- Subfamily Otariinae
- Neophoca cinerea (Australian sea-lion)
Family Phocidae[edit]
- Hydrurga leptonyx (leopard seal)
- Leptonychotes weddellii (Weddell seal)
- Lobodon carcinophaga (crab-eater seal)
- Mirounga leonina (southern elephant seal)
- Ommatophoca rossii (Ross seal)
Order Cetacea[edit]
Suborder Mysticeti[edit]
Family Balaenidae[edit]
- Eubalaena australis (southern right whale)
Family Neobalaenidae[edit]
- Caperea marginata (pygmy right whale)
Family Balaenopteridae[edit]
- Balaenoptera acutorostrata (dwarf minke whale)
- Balaenoptera bonaerensis (Antarctic minke whale)
- Balaenoptera borealis (sei whale)
- Balaenoptera edeni (Bryde's whale)
- Balaenoptera omurai (Omura's whale)
- Balaenoptera musculus (blue whale)
- Balaenoptera physalus (fin whale)
- Megaptera novaeangliae (humpback whale)
Suborder Odontoceti[edit]
Family Delphinidae[edit]
- Delphinus delphis (common dolphin)
- Globicephala macrorhynchus (short-finned pilot whale)
- Globicephala melas (long-finned pilot whale)
- Grampus griseus (Risso's dolphin)
- Orcinus orca (killer whale)
- Pseudorca crassidens (false killer whale)
- Sagmatias obscurus (dusky dolphin)
- Tursiops truncatus (common bottlenose dolphin)
- Tursiops aduncus (Indian Ocean bottlenose dolphin)
Family Phocoenidae[edit]
- Phocoena dioptrica (spectacled porpoise)
Family Physeteridae[edit]
- Physeter macrocephalus (sperm whale)
Family Kogiidae[edit]
- Kogia breviceps (pygmy sperm whale)
- Kogia sima (dwarf sperm whale)
Family Ziphiidae[edit]
- Berardius arnuxii (Arnoux's beaked whale)
- Hyperoodon planifrons (southern bottlenose whale)
- Mesoplodon bowdoini (Andrews beaked whale)
- Mesoplodon grayi (Gray's beaked whale)
- Mesoplodon hectori (Hector's beaked whale)
- Mesoplodon layardii (strap-toothed whale)
- Tasmacetus shepherdi (Shepherd's beaked whale)
- Ziphius cavirostris (Cuvier's beaked whale)
Order Artiodactyla[edit]
Family Cervidae[edit]
- Dama dama (common fallow deer) introduced
Order Rodentia[edit]
Family Muridae[edit]
- Subfamily Hydromyinae
- Conilurus albipes (white-footed tree-rat) locally extinct [note 1][7]
- Hydromys chrysogaster (water-rat)
- Leggadina forresti (Forrest's mouse)
- †Leporillus apicalis (lesser stick-nest rat)
- Leporillus conditor (greater stick-nest rat) [note 2]
- Notomys alexis (spinifex hopping-mouse)
- †Notomys amplus (short-tailed hopping-mouse)
- Notomys cervinus (fawn hopping-mouse)
- Notomys fuscus (dusky hopping-mouse)
- †Notomys longicaudatus (long-tailed hopping-mouse)
- Notomys mitchellii (Mitchell's hopping-mouse)
- Pseudomys apodemoides (silky mouse)
- Pseudomys australis (plains mouse)
- Pseudomys bolami (Bolam's mouse)
- Pseudomys desertor (desert mouse)
- Pseudomys fieldi (Shark Bay mouse) locally extinct [note 3][7]
- †Pseudomys gouldii (Gould's mouse)
- Pseudomys hermannsburgensis (sandy inland mouse)
- Pseudomys shortridgei (heath rat)
- Subfamily Murinae
- Mus musculus (house mouse) introduced
- Rattus fuscipes (bush rat)
- Rattus lutreolus (swamp rat)
- Rattus norvegicus (brown rat) introduced
- Rattus rattus (black rat) introduced
- Rattus tunneyi (pale field-rat) locally extinct
- Rattus villosissimus (long-haired rat)
Order Lagomorpha[edit]
Family Leporidae[edit]
- Lepus europaeus (European hare) introduced
- Oryctolagus cuniculus (European rabbit) introduced
Notes[edit]
- ^ never collected live in South Australia, but reported by John Gould in 1863, and remains have since been found in subfossil deposits
- ^ locally extinct on mainland; native populations remain on the Franklin Islands; introduced on Reevesby and St Peter Islands
- ^ known in South Australia only from subfossil deposits, which are difficult to distinguish from those of P. gouldii
References[edit]
- ^ 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 (PDF). Biological Survey of South Australia. Retrieved 9 December 2020.
- ^ 'Extinct' wallaby goes back on show ABC News, 15 February 2012. Retrieved 8 December 2020.
- ^ "Petaurus notatus". ASM Mammal Diversity Database. 1.5. American Society of Mammalogists. Retrieved 9 September 2021.
- ^ Cremona, T., Baker, A. M., Cooper, S. J., Montague-Drake, R., Stobo-Wilson, A. M., & Carthew, S. M. (2020). Integrative taxonomic investigation of Petaurus breviceps (Marsupialia: Petauridae) reveals three distinct species. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.
- ^ Jooste, James (28 June 2016). "Wild dog populations will be out of control within five years without dedicated dogger, former trapper says". ABC News. Retrieved 15 September 2021.
- ^ Dulaney, Michael (22 July 2016). "'Every possible genetic combination': The diverse street dogs of the APY Lands". ABC News. Retrieved 15 September 2021.
- ^ 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.