Mammals

Question 1

Order Dasyuromorphia

Answer 1

Within Marsupials

Question 2

Family Dasyuridae

Answer 2

Within Dasyuromorphia, small carnivorous mammals, quadrupedal, insect feeders

Question 3

Subfamily Sminthopsinae

Answer 3

Within Dasyuridae, Planigales, Ningauis, Dunnarts, Kultarr

Question 4

Subfamily Dasyurinae

Answer 4

Within Dasyiridae, quolls, tasmanian devil, pseudoantechinuses, mulgaras, kaluta, antechinuses, kowary, phascogales.

Question 5

Family Myrmecobiidae

Answer 5

Within dasyuromorphia, Numbat, true diurnal marsupial, termite feeder, lng tongue with mouth ridges, restricted to two natural and two translocated populations.

Question 6

Family Thylacinidae

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Within dasyutomorphia, only species with male pouch

Question 7

Order Peramelomorphia

Answer 7

Within Marsupials, bilbies and bandicoots

Question 8

Family Peramelidae

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Within Peramelomorphia, bandicoots, omnivores that consume ltos of things in the ground like fungi

Question 9

Family Thylacomidae

Answer 9

Within Peramelomorphia, bilbies, longer ears than bandicoot, mainly carnivorous, mainly insects.

Question 10

Family Chaeropodidae

Answer 10

Within Peramelomorphia, pig footed bandicoot

Question 11

Order Diprodontia

Answer 11

Within Marsupials

Question 12

Suborder Macropodiformes

Answer 12

Within Diprodontia

Question 13

Family Macropodidae

Answer 13

Within macropodiformes, kangaroos and wallabies, foregut fermenters with symbiotic bacteria, pentapedal, + hopping, energy efficient plus 15k, immediate mating

Question 14

Family Potoroidae

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Within Macropodiformes, potoroos and bettongs, prehensile tail, simpler stomach bc feeds on fungi n other stuff it digs for, inc eastern bettong (good0, gilberts potoroo (bad) and brush tailed betong (bad)

Question 15

Family Hypsiprymnodontidae

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Within macropodiformes, musky rat kangaroo, bounds, frugivorous, prehensile tail for carrying nesting, short gestation (19 day)

Question 16

Suborder Vombatiformes

Answer 16

Within Diprodontia

Question 17

Suborder Phalangiformes

Answer 17

Within Diprodontia, possums

Question 18

Family Burramyidae

Answer 18

Within Phalangiformes, pygmy possums

Question 19

Family Petauridae

Answer 19

Within Phalangeriformes, gliders, including leadbeaters

Question 20

Family Pseudocheiridae

Answer 20

Within Phalangeriformes, ringtails, inc greater glider

Question 21

Family Tarsipedidae

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Within Phalangeriformes, honey possum

Question 22

Family Acrobatidae

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Within Phalangeriformes, feathertail gliders

Question 23

Family Phalangeridae

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Within Phalangeriformes, brushtail and cus cus

Question 24

Order Notoryctemorphia

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Within Marsupials

Question 25

Family Notoryctidae

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Within Notoryctemorphia, marsupial moles, swim through sand, vestigial lenses no eyes, no external ears just pinnae

Question 26

Family Pretopodidae

Answer 26

Within Chiroptera, flying foxes and fruit bats

Question 27

Family Megadermatidae

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Within Chiroptera, ghost bat

Question 28

Family Rhinolophidae

Answer 28

Within Chiroptera, horseshoe bat, complex facial structure for echolocation

Question 29

Family Hipposideridae

Answer 29

Within Chiroptera, leaf nosed bats

Question 30

Family Vespertillionidae

Answer 30

Within Chiroptera, evening bats

Question 31

Family Molossidae

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Within Chiroptera, free tailed bats

Question 32

Family Emballonuridae

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Within Chiroptera, sheath tailed bats

Question 33

Family Miniopteridae

Answer 33

Within Chiroptera, bent wing bats, elongated third finger allowing wing manouvering

Question 34

Family Otariidae

Answer 34

Within Carnivora, sea lions and fur seals

Question 35

Family Phocidae

Answer 35

Within Carnivora, earless seals

Question 36

Family Balaenidae

Answer 36

Within Cetacea, southern right whale

Question 37

Family Neobalaenidae

Answer 37

Within Cetacea, pygmy right whale

Question 38

Family Balaenopteridae

Answer 38

Within Cetacea, baleen whales

Question 39

Family Physeteridae

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Within Cetacea, sperm whale

Question 40

Family Kogiidae

Answer 40

Within cetacea, small sperm whales

Question 41

Family Ziphiidae

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within cetacea, beaked whales

Question 42

Family Delphinidae

Answer 42

Within cetacea, dolphins, killer whales, pilot whales

Question 43

Family phocoenidae

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Within cetacea, spectacles porpoise

Question 44

Genus Petauris

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Within Petauridae, squirrel and yellow bellied glifer, highly social

Question 45

Genus Gymnobelideus

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Within Petauridae, leadbeaters possum

Question 46

Genus Dactylopsila

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Within Petauridae, striped possums, rounded cranium for munching, large procumbent lower incisors, 4th finger elongated

Question 47

Genus Trichosurus

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Within Phalangeridae, brushtails, includes bobuck,with polygyny in abundant resources and monogamy in limited resources

Question 48

Genus Petrogale

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Within Macropods, rock wallabies

Question 49

Genus Gendrogalus

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Within Macropods, tree kangaroos

Question 50

Genus Thygogale

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Within Macropod ,Pademelons

Question 51

Genus Setonix

Answer 51

Within Macropod, Quokka

Question 52

Genus Onuchogalea

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Within Macropod, Nailtail , horny sput on tail, put in ground sometimes, dunno why

Question 53

Genus Lagorchestes

Answer 53

Within macropod, hare wallabies

Question 54

Genus Pteropus

Answer 54

Within Pteropodidae, flying foxes, roost in camps