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 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]
Order Monotremata
Family Ornithorhynchidae
- Ornithorhynchus anatinus (platypus)
Family Tachyglossidae
- Tachyglossus aculeatus (short-beaked echidna)
Subclass Marsupialia
Order Dasyuromorphia
Family Myrmecobiidae
- Myrmecobius fasciatus (numbat) reintroduced
Family Dasyuridae
- 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
Family †Chaeropodidae
- †Chaeropus ecaudatus (pig-footed bandicoot)
Family Peramelidae
- 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
Family Notoryctidae
- Notoryctes typhlops (marsupial mole)
Order Diprotodontia
Family Phascolarctidae
- Phascolarctos cinereus (koala) reintroduced
Family Vombatidae
- Lasiorhinus latifrons (southern hairy-nosed wombat)
- Vombatus ursinus (common wombat)
Family Phalangeridae
- Trichosurus vulpecula (common brushtail possum)
Family Potoroidae
- Bettongia lesueur (burrowing bettong)
- Bettongia penicillata (brush-tailed bettong)
- †Caloprymnus campestris (desert rat-kangaroo)
- †Potorous tridactylus (long-nosed potoroo)
Family Macropodidae
- 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
- Cercartetus concinnus (western pygmy-possum)
- Cercartetus lepidus (little pygmy-possum)
- Cercartetus nanus (eastern pygmy-possum)
Family Pseudocheiridae
- Pseudocheirus peregrinus (common ringtail possum)
Family Petauridae
- Petaurus australis (yellow-bellied glider)
- Petaurus notatus (Krefft's glider)[3][4]
- Petaurus norfolcensis (squirrel glider) locally extinct
Acrobatidae
- Acrobates pygmaeus (feathertail glider)