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Marsupial Mole
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MARSUPIAL MOLE (Notoryctes typhlops), the "Ur-quamata" of the natives, an aberrant polyprotodont from central South Australia, constituting a family (Notoryctidae).
Marsupial mole
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Northern Marsupial Mole
Numbat (Banded Anteater) (Numbat)
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Genus Notoryctes (marsupial moles)
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This order includes the marsupial moles that live in the deserts of western Australia. There are two species in the order - the southern marsupial mole and the northern marsupial mole.
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Paucituberculata - shrew opossums ...
Though marsupials today do not have as many species as do the placental mammals, they are quite structurally diverse. They range from small four-footed forms like the marsupial mole, Notoryctes, to the large two-legged kangaroos.
The Australian marsupials include the Tasmanian devil, numbats, bandicoots, wombats, marsupial moles, pygmy possums, koalas, kangaroos, wallabies and many others. There are 292 species of marsupials alive today.
Order Dasyuromorphia - numbat, extinct Tasmanian wolf
Order Peramelemorphia - bandicoots and bilbies
Order Notoryctemorphia - marsupial moles
Order Diprotodontia - (10 families and 117 species) kangaroos, wallaby, wombats, koalas ...
I did not wish to include groups that can only be identified by trapping and examination in-hand. So there are no mice, rats, shrews, gophers, moles, golden moles, marsupial moles, and other similar small species on this list.
Thus, there are animals known as Tasmanian wolves (see thylacine), marsupial moles, marsupial mice, and native cats (see dasyure), which live very much like the correspondingly named placental mammals and, in many cases, ...
 See also: Marsupial, Kangaroo, Bandicoot, Quoll, Opossum
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