Threatened fauna of Australia are those species

Species

In biology, a species is one of the basic units of biological classification and a taxonomic rank. A species is often defined as a group of organisms capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring. While in many cases this definition is adequate, more precise or differing measures are...

 and subspecies

Subspecies

Subspecies in biological classification, is either a taxonomic rank subordinate to species, ora taxonomic unit in that rank . A subspecies cannot be recognized in isolation: a species will either be recognized as having no subspecies at all or two or more, never just one...

 of birds, fish

Fish

Fish are a paraphyletic group of organisms that consist of all gill-bearing aquatic vertebrate animals that lack limbs with digits. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish, as well as various extinct related groups...

, frogs, insects, mammals, molluscs, crustaceans and reptiles to be found in Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

 that are in danger of becoming extinct. This list is the list proclaimed under the Australian federal Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

The Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 is an Act of the Parliament of Australia that provides a framework for protection of the Australian environment, including its biodiversity and its natural and culturally significant places...

 (EPBC Act). The classifications are based on those used by the World Conservation Union

World Conservation Union

The International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources is an international organization dedicated to finding "pragmatic solutions to our most pressing environment and development challenges." The organization publishes the IUCN Red List, compiling information from a network of...

 (IUCN), however IUCN and Australian rankings do differ.

Extinct in the wild

1 fish is listed as extinct in the wild.

• Pedder galaxias
  Pedder galaxias
  Pedder galaxias, Galaxias pedderensis, is a critically endangered Australian freshwater fish. It is considered to be extinct in the wild and was originally found only in Lake Pedder in Tasmania.-Range:...
  
  , Galaxias pedderensis

Critically endangered

4 mammals, 6 birds, 2 reptile, 3 fish and 5 other species are listed as critically endangered.

Invertebrates

• Boggomoss snail, Dawson Valley snail, Adclarkia dawsonensis
• Margaret River Hairy Marron
  Marron
  Marron is a name given to two closely related species of crayfish in Western Australia. Formerly considered a single species, it is now thought to comprise two species, the critically endangered Cherax tenuimanus, and the species which is outcompeting it, Cherax cainii.Marron make excellent eating,...
  
   Cherax tenuimanus
• Lord Howe Island stick insect, Dryococelus australis
  Dryococelus australis
  Dryococelus australis, commonly known as the Lord Howe Island stick insect or tree lobster, is a species of stick insect which lives on the Lord Howe Island Group. It was thought to be extinct by 1930, only to be rediscovered in 2001...
  
  
• Golden sun moth, Synemon plana
  Synemon plana
  Synemon plana, commonly known as the golden sun moth is a diurnal moth native to Australia.-Description:It is a medium-sized moth with clubbed antennae. The clubbed antennae are a notable feature of Synemon plana; most other moths have brushy antennae. The golden sun moth appears on the list of...
  
  
• Mitchell's rainforest snail
  Mitchell's rainforest snail
  Mitchell's rainforest snail, scientific name Thersites mitchellae, is a species of large, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Camaenidae.This species is native to Australia...
  
  , Thersites mitchellae

Fish

• Grey nurse shark
  Grey nurse shark
  The sand tiger shark or grey nurse shark is a species of shark that inhabits coastal waters worldwide. It lives very close to the shorelines and beaches of North America, hence the name, sand tiger shark. Despite a fearsome appearance and strong swimming abilities, it is a relatively placid and...
  
  , Carcharias taurus, east coast population
• Western Trout Minnow Galaxias truttaceus hesperius
• Speartooth shark
  Speartooth shark
  The speartooth shark is an extremely rare species of requiem shark, family Carcharhinidae. Only immature specimens, which inhabit the tidal reaches of large tropical rivers in northern Australia and New Guinea, are known. It is exclusively found in fast-moving, highly turbid waters over a wide...
  
  , Glyphis sp. A

Reptiles

• Western Swamp Tortoise
  Western Swamp Tortoise
  The western swamp tortoise , also known as the western swamp turtle, is a short-necked freshwater tortoise that monotypically represents the sub-family Pseudemydurinae.-Description:...
  
  , Pseudemydura umbrina
• Leathery Turtle, Leatherback Turtle, Luth Dermochelys coriacea

Birds

• Scrubtit
  Scrubtit
  The Scrubtit is a species of bird in the thornbill family Acanthizidae. It is monotypic within the genus Acanthornis, and is endemic to Tasmania and King Island in Australia. Its natural habitat is the temperate rainforest, Nothofagus beech forest and eucalypt woodland...
  
   (King Island), Acanthornis magnus greenianus
• Spotted Quail-thrush
  Spotted Quail-thrush
  The Spotted Quail-thrush is a species of bird in the Cinclosomatidae family.It is endemic to Australia.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests.-References:...
  
   (Mt Lofty Ranges), Cinclosoma punctatum anachoreta
• Yellow Chat
  Yellow Chat
  The Yellow Chat is a species of bird in the Meliphagidae family.It is endemic to Australia.-References:* BirdLife International 2004. . Downloaded on 25 July 2007....
  
   (Dawson), Epthianura crocea macgregori
• Orange-bellied Parrot
  Orange-bellied Parrot
  The Orange-bellied Parrot is a small broad-tailed parrot endemic to southern Australia, and one of only two species of parrot which migrate. The adult male is distinguished by its bright grass-green upperparts, yellow underparts and orange belly patch. The adult female and juvenile are duller...
  
   Neophema chrysogaster
• Round Island Petrel, Pterodroma arminjoniana
• Herald Petrel
  Herald Petrel
  The Trindade Petrel, Pterodroma arminjoniana, is a species of seabird and a member of the gadfly petrels. The bird is 35-39 cm in size, with a 88-102 cm wingspan....
  
  , Pterodroma heraldica

Mammals

• Gilbert's Potoroo
  Gilbert's Potoroo
  Gilbert's Potoroo is an Australian marsupial, sometimes called a rat-kangaroo, that is critically endangered. It is described as pointed in the face and about the size of a rabbit. It lives in a restricted area on the southwest coast of Western Australia. Gilbert's Potoroos now exist on Bald...
  
   Potorous gilbertii
• Christmas Island Pipistrelle
  Christmas Island Pipistrelle
  The Christmas Island Pipistrelle is a species of vesper bat found only on Christmas Island, Australia.It is a small bat weighing around 3 to 4.5 grams. It has sometimes been considered synonymous with Pipistrellus tenuis; however, revisions of the genus based on baculum have identified...
  
   Pipistrellus murrayi
• Bare-rumped Sheathtail Bat, Saccolaimus saccolaimus nudicluniatus
• Southern Bent-wing Bat, Miniopterus schreibersii bassanii

Endangered

34 mammals, 38 birds, 11 reptiles, 18 frogs, 16 fishes and 11 other species are listed as endangered.

Invertebrates

• Desert Sand-skipper, Aestiva Skipper Croitana aestiva
• Central North Burrowing Crayfish Engaeus granulatus
• Furneaux Burrowing Crayfish Engaeus martigener
• Scottsdale Burrowing Crayfish Engaeus spinicaudatus
• Gove Crow Butterfly Euploea alcathoe enastri
• Broad-toothed Stag Beetle, Wielangta Stag Beetle
  Wielangta stag beetle
  Lissotes latidens, commonly known as the Wielangta Stag Beetle or Broad-toothed Stag Beetle, is a species of stag beetle which is only found in an area centred in Wielangta Forest in eastern Tasmania...
  
   Lissotes latidens
• land snail
  Snail
  Snail is a common name applied to most of the members of the molluscan class Gastropoda that have coiled shells in the adult stage. When the word is used in its most general sense, it includes sea snails, land snails and freshwater snails. The word snail without any qualifier is however more often...
  
   Mesodontrachia fitzroyana
• Lord Howe Placostylus, Lord Howe Flax Snail
  Lord Howe Flax Snail
  The Lord Howe Flax Snail or the Lord Howe placostylus, scientific name Placostylus bivaricosus, is a species of large air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Placostylidae, according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda .This large snail is found only on Lord...
  
   Placostylus bivaricosus
• land snail
  Snail
  Snail is a common name applied to most of the members of the molluscan class Gastropoda that have coiled shells in the adult stage. When the word is used in its most general sense, it includes sea snails, land snails and freshwater snails. The word snail without any qualifier is however more often...
  
   Semotrachia euzyga
• land snail
  Snail
  Snail is a common name applied to most of the members of the molluscan class Gastropoda that have coiled shells in the adult stage. When the word is used in its most general sense, it includes sea snails, land snails and freshwater snails. The word snail without any qualifier is however more often...
  
   Sinumelon bednalli
• moth
  Moth
  A moth is an insect closely related to the butterfly, both being of the order Lepidoptera. Moths form the majority of this order; there are thought to be 150,000 to 250,000 different species of moth , with thousands of species yet to be described...
  
   Phyllodes imperialis (southern subsp. - ANIC 3333)

Fish

• Spotted Handfish
  Spotted handfish
  The spotted handfish, Brachionichthys hirsutus, is a rare Australian fish from the family Brachionichthyidae. It is classified as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List 2002. It is a benthic fish usually found in depths of 5 to 10 metres, with overall sightings varying from a minimum of 2...
  
  , Spotted-hand Fish Brachionichthys hirsutus
• Elizabeth Springs goby
  Elizabeth Springs goby
  The Elizabeth Springs goby is a species of fish in the Gobiidae family. It is endemic to Australia.-Source:* Wager, R. 1996. . Downloaded 04 August 2007....
  
   Chlamydogobius micropterus
• Golden galaxias Galaxias auratus
• Swan galaxias Galaxias fontanus
• Barred Galaxias Galaxias fuscus
• Clarence galaxias
  Clarence galaxias
  The Clarence galaxias is a species of fish in the Galaxiidae family. It is endemic to Australia.-Source:* Wager, R. 1996. . Downloaded on 4 August 2007....
  
   Galaxias johnstoni
• Northern River Shark, New Guinea river shark
  New Guinea river shark
  The northern river shark or New Guinea river shark is a species of requiem shark, family Carcharhinidae, found in scattered tidal rivers and associated coastal waters in northern Australia and possibly Papua New Guinea...
  
   Glyphis sp. C
• Clarence River Cod, Eastern Freshwater Cod
  Eastern freshwater cod
  Eastern freshwater cod, Maccullochella ikei, also known as eastern cod, are a large and striking predatory freshwater fish of the Maccullochella genus and the Percichthyidae family, that occur in the coastal Clarence River system of north-eastern New South Wales...
  
   Maccullochella ikei
• Trout Cod
  Trout Cod
  The trout cod or bluenose cod, Maccullochella macquariensis, is a large predatory freshwater fish of the Maccullochella genus and the Percichthyidae family which was originally found in the south-east corner of the Murray-Darling river system in Australia...
  
   Maccullochella macquariensis
• Mary River Cod
  Mary River cod
  Mary River cod are a Maccullochella cod found in the coastal Mary River system of southern Queensland, Australia...
  
   Maccullochella peelii mariensis
• Macquarie Perch
  Macquarie perch
  The Macquarie perch is an Australian native freshwater fish of the Murray-Darling river system. It is a member of the Percichthyidae family and is closely related to the golden perch ....
  
   Macquaria australasica
• Lake Eacham rainbowfish
  Lake Eacham rainbowfish
  The Lake Eacham rainbowfish is a species of fish in the Melanotaeniidae family. It is endemic to Yidyam , Queensland, Australia.-Sources:...
  
   Melanotaenia eachamensis
• Oxleyan Pygmy Perch
  Oxleyan Pygmy Perch
  The Oxleyan Pygmy Perch is a species of perch-like fish in the Percichthyidae family.It is found only in Australia.-Source:* Wager, R. 1996. . Downloaded on 20 July 2007....
  
   Nannoperca oxleyana
• Arthurs paragalaxias
  Arthurs paragalaxias
  The arthurs paragalaxias is a species of fish in the Galaxiidae family. It is endemic to Australia.-References:* Wager, R. 1996. . Downloaded on 4 August 2007....
  
   Paragalaxias mesotes
• Maugean skate
  Maugean skate
  The maugean skate is a species of fish in the Rajidae family. It is endemic to Australia. Its natural habitat is estuarine waters.-Source:* Gledhill, D. & Last, P. 2000. . Downloaded on 3 August 2007....
  
  , Port Davey Skate Raja sp.
• Redfin blue-eye Scaturiginichthys vermeilipinnis

Amphibians

• White-bellied Frog, Creek Frog Geocrinia alba
• Yellow-spotted Tree Frog, Yellow-spotted Bell Frog  Litoria castanea
• Armoured Mistfrog Litoria lorica
• Waterfall Frog
  Waterfall Frog
  The Australian waterfall frog or torrent treefrog is a species of tree frog native to Far North Queensland, Australia. The common name of "waterfall frog" is indicative of its habitat of moist, rocky streams, and is often found along waterfalls within its range.-Physical description:The waterfall...
  
  , Torrent Tree Frog Litoria nannotis
• Mountain Mistfrog
  Mountain Mistfrog
  The Mountain Mistfrog or Nyakala Frog is a species of frog in the Hylidae family.It is endemic to Australia.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and rivers....
  
   Litoria nyakalensis
• Spotted Tree Frog Litoria spenceri
• Fleay's Frog Mixophyes fleayi
• Southern Barred Frog, Giant Barred Frog
  Giant Barred Frog
  The Giant Barred Frog, Mixophyes iteratus, is a species of barred frogs in Australia. It occurs from south-east Queensland to just south of the Newcastle region in New South Wales...
  
   Mixophyes iteratus
• Lace-eyed Tree Frog, Australian Lace-lid
  Australian Lace-lid
  The Australian Lace-lid is a tree frog and is the only species in its genus that occurs in Australia.-Physical description:...
  
   Nyctimystes dayi
• Baw Baw Frog
  Baw Baw Frog
  The Baw Baw frog is a critically endangered species of Australian frog as categorised on the IUCN redlist and listed under the Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act .- Description :...
  
   Philoria frosti
• Southern Corroboree Frog
  Corroboree frog
  The Corroboree frogs are two species of small, ground dwelling frogs, native to Southern Tablelands of Australia. The two species are the Southern Corroboree Frog and the Northern Corroboree Frog .-Taxonomy:'Corroboree' is an Indigenous Australian word for a gathering or meeting where...
  
   Pseudophryne corroboree
• Sunset Frog
  Sunset Frog
  The Sunset Frog is a species of ground-dwelling frog native to south-west Western Australia, Australia. It is the only species in the genus Spicospina...
  
   Spicospina flammocaerulea
• Eungella Day Frog Taudactylus eungellensis
• Tinkling Frog Taudactylus rheophilus

Reptiles

• Loggerhead Turtle Caretta caretta
• Yellow-snouted Ground Gecko Diplodactylus occultus
• Arhem Land Egernia Egernia obiri
• Slater's Skink, Floodplain Skink Egernia slateri slateri
• Western Spiny-tailed Skink Egernia stokesii badia
• Gulf Snapping Turtle
  Gulf Snapping Turtle
  The Gulf snapping turtle is a species of freshwater turtle in the Chelidae family. It is endemic to Australia.-Taxonomy:...
  
   Elusor lavarackorum
• Mary River Tortoise Elusor macrurus
• Blue Mountains Water Skink Eulamprus leuraensis
• Corangamite Water Skink Eulamprus tympanum marnieae
• Pacific Ridley, Olive Ridley
  Olive Ridley
  The olive ridley sea turtle , also known as the Pacific ridley, is a species of sea turtle.- Description :The olive ridley is a small extant sea turtle, with an adult carapace length averaging 60 to 70 cm 1...
  
   Lepidochelys olivacea
• Allan's Lerista
  Allan's Lerista
  The Allan's Lerista is a species of skink in the Scincidae family.It is found only in Australia.It is listed as Critically Endangered under the IUCN Red List, and as Endangered on Queensland's Nature Conservation Act 1992.-Source:* Australasian Reptile & Amphibian Specialist Group 1996. . ...
  
  , Retro Slider Lerista allanae
• Pygmy Blue-tongue Lizard, Adelaide Blue-tongue Lizard Tiliqua adelaidensis
• Grassland Earless Dragon Tympanocryptis lineata pinguicolla

Birds

• Brown Thornbill
  Brown Thornbill
  The Brown Thornbill, Acanthiza pusilla, is a passerine bird usually found in eastern and south-eastern Australia, including Tasmania. It can grow up to 10 cm long, and feeds on insects....
  
   (King Island) Acanthiza pusilla archibaldi
• Christmas Island Goshawk
  Christmas Island Goshawk
  The Christmas Goshawk or Christmas Island Goshawk is a bird of prey in the goshawk and sparrowhawk family Accipitridae. It is a threatened endemic of Christmas Island, an Australian territory in the eastern Indian Ocean.-Taxonomy:The taxon was described in 1889 by Lister as a full species,...
  
   Accipiter fasciatus natalis
• Wedge-tailed Eagle
  Wedge-tailed Eagle
  The Wedge-tailed Eagle , sometimes known as the Eaglehawk in its native range, is the largest bird of prey in Australia, but it is also found in southern New Guinea. It has long, fairly broad wings, fully feathered legs, and an unmistakable wedge-shaped tail...
  
   (Tasmanian) Aquila audax fleayi
• Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo (south-eastern) Calyptorhynchus banksii graptogyne
• Glossy Black-Cockatoo
  Glossy Black-Cockatoo
  The Glossy Black Cockatoo , also known as the Casuarina Black Cockatoo after one of their preferred food items, is the smallest member of the subfamily Calyptorhynchinae found in Australia. Adult Glossy Black Cockatoos may reach 50 cm in length. They are sexually dimorphic...
  
   (South Australian), Glossy Black-Cockatoo (Kangaroo Island) Calyptorhynchus lathami halmaturinus
• Carnaby's Black-Cockatoo, Short-billed Black-Cockatoo
  Short-billed Black-Cockatoo
  The Short-billed Black Cockatoo or Carnaby's Black Cockatoo Calyptorhynchus latirostris is a cockatoo endemic to south-western Australia. Also known as the Large Black Cockatoo, or simply Carnaby's Cockatoo, it is black with white tail feathers and white cheek patches...
  
   Calyptorhynchus latirostris
• Southern Cassowary
  Southern Cassowary
  The Southern Cassowary, Casuarius casuarius, also known as Double-wattled Cassowary, Australian Cassowary or Two-wattled Cassowary, is a large flightless black bird...
  
   (Australian) Casuarius casuarius johnsonii
• Emerald Dove
  Emerald Dove
  The Common Emerald Dove is a pigeon which is a widespread resident breeding bird in the tropical and sub-tropical parts of the Indian Subcontinent and east through Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia, to northern and eastern Australia. The dove is also known by the names of Green Dove and...
  
   (Christmas Island) Chalcophaps indica natalis
• Norfolk Island Green Parrot
  Norfolk Island Green Parrot
  The Norfolk Parakeet , also called Tasman Parakeet, Norfolk Island Green Parrot or Norfolk Island Red-crowned Parakeet, is a species of parrot in the Psittacidae family. It is endemic to Norfolk Island...
  
  , Red-fronted Parakeet (Norfolk Island) Cyanoramphus novaezelandiae cookii
• Coxen's Fig-Parrot
  Coxen's Fig-Parrot
  Coxen's Fig-Parrot , also known as the Blue-browed, Red-faced or Southern Fig-Parrot or Lorilet, is one of the smallest and least known Australian parrots. It is a highly endangered subspecies of the Double-eyed Fig-Parrot...
  
   Cyclopsitta diophthalma coxeni

• Eastern Bristlebird
  Eastern Bristlebird
  The Eastern Bristlebird is a species of bird in the Bristlebird family Dasyornithidae. It is endemic to Australia. Its natural habitats are temperate forests, temperate shrubland, and temperate grassland...
  
   Dasyornis brachypterus
• Amsterdam Albatross
  Amsterdam Albatross
  The Amsterdam Albatross or Amsterdam Island Albatross, Diomedea amsterdamensis, is a huge albatross which breeds only on Amsterdam Island in the southern Indian Ocean. It was only described in 1983, and was thought by some researchers to be a sub-species of the Wandering Albatross, exulans...
  
   Diomedea amsterdamensis
• Tristan Albatross
  Tristan Albatross
  The Tristan Albatross, Diomedea dabbenena, is a large seabird from the albatross family. One of the great albatrosses of the genus Diomedea, it was only widely recognised as a full species in 1998.-Taxonomy:...
  
   Diomedea dabbenena
• Northern Royal Albatross
  Northern Royal Albatross
  The Northern Royal Albatross or Toroa, Diomedea sanfordi, is a large seabird from the albatross family. It was split from the closely related Southern Royal Albatross as recently as 1998, though not all scientists support that conclusion and consider both of them to be subspecies of the Royal...
  
   Diomedea sanfordi
• Gouldian Finch
  Gouldian Finch
  The Gouldian Finch, Erythrura gouldiae , also known as the Lady Gouldian Finch, Gould's Finch or the Rainbow Finch, is a colorful passerine bird endemic to Australia. There is strong evidence of a continuing decline, even at the best-known site near Katherine in the Northern Territory...
  
   Erythrura gouldiae
• Buff-banded Rail
  Buff-banded Rail
  The Buff-banded Rail, Gallirallus philippensis is a distinctively coloured, highly dispersive, medium-sized rail of the family Rallidae....
  
   (Cocos (Keeling) Islands) Gallirallus philippensis andrewsi
• Chestnut-rumped Heathwren
  Chestnut-rumped Heathwren
  The Chestnut-rumped Heathwren is a species of bird in the Pardalotidae family.It is endemic to Australia.Its natural habitats are temperate forests and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.-Australia:...
  
   (Mt Lofty Ranges) Hylacola pyrrhopygia parkeri
• Swift Parrot
  Swift Parrot
  The Swift Parrot breeds in Tasmania and migrates north to south eastern Australia from Griffith-Warialda in New South Wales and west to Adelaide in the winter. It is related to the rosellas, with the feeding habits of a lorikeet...
  
   Lathamus discolor
• Helmeted Honeyeater
  Helmeted Honeyeater
  The Helmeted Honeyeater is a passerine bird in the Honeyeater family. It is a distinctive and critically endangered subspecies, formerly considered a full species, of the Yellow-tufted Honeyeater, that exists in the wild only as a tiny relict population in the Australian state of Victoria, in the...
  
   Lichenostomus melanops cassidix
• Southern Giant-Petrel Macronectes giganteus
• Black-eared Miner
  Black-eared Miner
  The Black-eared Miner, Manorina melanotis, is an endangered honeyeater endemic to mallee woodland in south-eastern Australia. It is closely related to the much more widely distributed Yellow-throated Miner M. flavigula and the taxonomic status of the Black-eared Miner is the subject of some...
  
   Manorina melanotis
• Hooded Robin
  Hooded Robin
  The Hooded Robin is a small passerine bird native to Australia. Like many brightly coloured robins of the Petroicidae it is sexually dimorphic; the male bearing distinctive black and white coloured plumage, while the female is a nondescript grey-brown.-Taxonomy:Like all Australian Robins, it is...
  
   (Tiwi Islands) Melanodryas cucullata melvillensis
• Star Finch
  Star Finch
  The Star Finch is a species of estrildid finch found in Australia. It inhabits dry grassland and dry savanna habitats.-Subspecies:It has three subspecies:...
  
   (eastern), Star Finch (southern) Neochmia ruficauda ruficauda
• Norfolk Island Boobook
  Norfolk Island Boobook
  The Norfolk Boobook , also known as the Norfolk Island Boobook, Norfolk Island Owl or Norfolk Island Morepork, was a bird in the true owl family endemic to Norfolk Island, an Australian territory in the Tasman Sea between Australia and New Zealand. It is an extinct subspecies of the Southern Boobook...
  
  , Southern Boobook
  Southern Boobook
  The Southern Boobook , also called the Mopoke, Morepork, Ruru or Tasmanian Spotted Owl, is a small brown owl found throughout New Zealand, Tasmania, across most of mainland Australia and in Timor, southern New Guinea and nearby islands.The bird has almost 20 alternative common names, most of which...
  
   (Norfolk Island) Ninox novaeseelandiae undulata
• Forty-spotted Pardalote
  Forty-spotted Pardalote
  The Forty-spotted Pardalote is one of Australia's rarest birds and by far the rarest pardalote, being confined to the south-east corner of Tasmania.-Description:...
  
   Pardalotus quadragintus
• Night Parrot
  Night Parrot
  The Night Parrot is a small broad-tailed parrot endemic to the continent of Australia. The species was originally placed within its own genus , but most authors now prefer to place it within the genus Pezoporus together with the two ground parrots.No known sightings of the bird were made between...
  
   Pezoporus occidentalis
• Western Ground Parrot
  Western Ground Parrot
  The Western Ground Parrot is an endangered species of parrot endemic to Western Australia and is a close relative of the Eastern Ground Parrot and the somewhat more distantly related and mysterious Night Parrot...
  
   Pezoporus flaviventris
• Black-throated Finch
  Black-throated Finch
  The Black-throated Finch , or Parson Finch, is a species of estrildid finch found in grassy woodlands throughout north-east Australia from Cape York Peninsula to north-east New South Wales...
  
   (southern) Poephila cincta cincta
• Golden-shouldered Parrot
  Golden-shouldered Parrot
  The Golden-shouldered Parrot is a rare bird of southern Cape York Peninsula, in Queensland, Australia. A small attractive parrot related to the more common Red-rumped Parrot, it is considered to be a superspecies with the Hooded Parrot The Golden-shouldered Parrot (Psephotus chrysopterygius) is a...
  
   Psephotus chrysopterygius
• Western Whipbird
  Western Whipbird
  The Western Whipbird is a passerine bird found in several scattered populations across southern Australia. It is predominantly olive green in colour....
  
   (western heath) Psophodes nigrogularis nigrogularis
• Gould's Petrel
  Gould's Petrel
  Gould's Petrel is a species of seabird in the Procellariidae family. It is a small petrel, 30 cm long with a wingspan of about 70 cm. It is largely grey above and white below with a blackish crown and hindneck and a black M-shaped band across the wings and rump.The subspecies P. l...
  
   Pterodroma leucoptera leucoptera
• Antarctic Tern
  Antarctic Tern
  The Antarctic Tern is a typical tern. It ranges throughout the southern oceans. It is very similar in appearance to the closely related Arctic Tern, but is stockier, and the wing tips are grey instead of blackish in flight...
  
   (New Zealand) Sterna vittata bethunei
• Southern Emu-wren
  Southern Emu-wren
  The Southern Emu-wren is a species of bird in the Maluridae family. It is endemic to Australia. Its natural habitats are temperate forests and Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation.-Taxonomy:...
  
   (Fleurieu Peninsula), Mount Lofty Southern Emu-wren Stipiturus malachurus intermedius
• Abbott's Booby
  Abbott's Booby
  Abbott’s Booby is a large endangered seabird of the gannet family, Sulidae. Found normally only on and around Christmas Island Abbott’s Booby (Papasula abbotti) is a large endangered seabird of the gannet family, Sulidae. Found normally only on and around Christmas Island Abbott’s Booby (Papasula...
  
   Sula abbotti
• Chatham Albatross
  Chatham Albatross
  The Chatham Albatross, Chatham Mollymawk, or Chatham Islands Mollymawk, Thalassarche eremita, is a medium-sized black-and-white albatross which breeds only on The Pyramid, a large rock stack in the Chatham Islands, New Zealand. It is sometimes treated as a subspecies of the Shy Albatross...
  
   Thalassarche eremita
• Island Thrush
  Island Thrush
  The Island Thrush is a common forest bird in the thrush family. Almost 50 subspecies have been described, ranging from Taiwan, through South East Asia and Melanesia, to Samoa, exhibiting great differences in plumage...
  
   (Christmas Island) Turdus poliocephalus erythropleurus
• Buff-breasted Button-quail Turnix olivii
• Masked Owl Tyto novaehollandiae melvillensis
• Regent Honeyeater
  Regent Honeyeater
  The Regent Honeyeater, Xanthomyza phrygia, is an endangered bird endemic to Australia. It feeds on nectar and insects within eucalyptus forests. Recent genetic research suggests it is closely related to the wattlebirds.-Distribution:...
  
   Xanthomyza phrygia

Mammals

• Blue Whale
  Blue Whale
  The blue whale is a marine mammal belonging to the suborder of baleen whales . At in length and or more in weight, it is the largest known animal to have ever existed....
  
  , Balaenoptera musculus
• Northern Bettong
  Northern Bettong
  The Northern Bettong is a small potoroid marsupial which is restricted to some areas of mixed open Eucalyptus woodlands and Allocasuarina forests bordering rainforests in far northeastern Queensland, Australia....
  
  , Bettongia tropica
• Mountain Pygmy-possum, Burramys parvus
• Christmas Island Shrew
  Christmas Island Shrew
  The Christmas Island Shrew , also known as Christmas Island Musk-shrew is an extremely rare or possibly extinct shrew from Christmas Island...
  
  , Crocidura attenuata trichura
• Ampurta, Dasycercus hillieri
• Northern Quoll
  Northern Quoll
  The Northern Quoll , also known as the Northern Native Cat, the Satanellus, the North Australian Native Cat or the Njanmak , is a carnivorous marsupial mammal, native to Australia.- Taxonomy :The Northern Quoll is a member of the family Dasyuridae, and is often stated to be the most distinctive...
  
  , Dasyurus hallucatus
• Spotted-tailed Quoll, Yarri, Dasyurus maculatus gracilis (North Queensland subspecies)
• Spot-tailed Quoll, Spotted-tail Quoll, Tiger Quoll
  Tiger Quoll
  The tiger quoll , also known as the spotted-tail quoll, the spotted quoll, the spotted-tailed dasyure or the tiger cat, is a carnivorous marsupial of the quoll genus Dasyurus native to Australia...
  
  , Dasyurus maculatus maculatus (southeastern mainland population)

• Southern Right Whale
  Southern Right Whale
  The southern right whale is a baleen whale, one of three species classified as right whales belonging to the genus Eubalaena. Like other right whales, the southern right whale is readily distinguished from others by the callosities on its head, a broad back without a dorsal fin, and a long arching...
  
  , Eubalaena australis
• Leadbeater's Possum
  Leadbeater's Possum
  Leadbeater's Possum is an endangered possum restricted to small pockets of remaining old growth mountain ash forests in the central highlands of Victoria north-east of Melbourne...
  
  , Gymnobelideus leadbeateri
• Semon's Leaf-nosed Bat, Greater Wart-nosed Horseshoe-bat, Hipposideros semoni
• Southern Brown Bandicoot
  Southern Brown Bandicoot
  The Southern Brown Bandicoot , also known as the Quenda from the local Noongar tongue from South Western Australia, is a short-nosed bandicoot found mostly in southern Australia....
  
  , Isoodon obesulus obesulus
• Rufous Hare-Wallaby
  Rufous Hare-wallaby
  The rufous hare-wallaby , also known as the Mala, is a small macropod found in Australia. It was formerly widely distributed across the western half of the continent but is now confined to Bernier Island and Dorre Island Islands off Western Australia...
  
  , Lagorchestes hirsutus unnamed subsp. (central mainland form)
• Bramble Cay Melomys, Melomys rubicola
• Northern Marsupial Mole
  Marsupial mole
  Marsupial moles is a family of marsupials of the order Notoryctemorphia, consisting of only two extant species:* Notoryctes typhlops * Notoryctes caurinus ...
  
  , Notoryctes caurinus Karkarratul, Northern
• Southern Marsupial Mole
  Marsupial mole
  Marsupial moles is a family of marsupials of the order Notoryctemorphia, consisting of only two extant species:* Notoryctes typhlops * Notoryctes caurinus ...
  
  , Notoryctes typhlops
• Bridled Nail-tail Wallaby
  Bridled Nail-tail Wallaby
  Bridled Nail-tail Wallaby refers to Onychogalea fraenata, an endangered species of marsupial. It is a small wallaby found in three isolated areas in Queensland, Australia, and whose population is declining...
  
  , Onychogalea fraenata
• Dibbler
  Dibbler
  Dibbler is the common name for Parantechinus apicalis, an endangered species of marsupial. It is an inhabitant of the southwest mainland of Western Australia and some offshore islands. It is a member of the Dasyuromorphia order, and the only member of the genus, Parantechinus...
  
  , Parantechinus apicalis
• Western Barred Bandicoot
  Western Barred Bandicoot
  The Western Barred Bandicoot , also known as the Marl, is a small species of bandicoot found in Australia. It was once widespread across southern Australia from Western Australia to central New South Wales, but it is now found on Bernier, Dorre and Faure islands in Shark Bay, Western Australia,...
  
  , Perameles bougainville bougainville (Shark Bay
  Shark Bay
  Shark Bay is a World Heritage listed bay in Western Australia. The term may also refer to:* the locality of Shark Bay, now known as Denham* Shark Bay Marine Park* Shark Bay , a shark exhibit at Sea World, Gold Coast, Australia* Shire of Shark Bay...
  
  )
• Eastern Barred Bandicoot
  Eastern Barred Bandicoot
  The Eastern Barred Bandicoot was once distributed across the Basalt Plains of south west Victoria, and in Tasmania. It is a small, rabbit sized marsupial weighing less than 1 kg with a short tail and three to four whitish bars across the rump. It lives for just two to three years and is not...
  
  , Perameles gunnii unnamed subsp., mainland
• Mahogany Glider
  Mahogany Glider
  The mahogany glider is an endangered gliding possum native to a small region of coastal Queensland.-Appearance:A nocturnal arboreal marsupial, the mahogany glider closely resembles the sugar glider, the squirrel glider and the yellow-bellied glider., but is noticeably larger than any of its...
  
  , Petaurus gracilis
• Proserpine Rock-wallaby
  Proserpine Rock-wallaby
  The Proserpine Rock-wallaby is a species of rock-wallaby restricted to a small area in the in Conway National Park, Dryander National Park, Gloucester Island National Park, and around the town of Airlie Beach, all in Whitsunday Shire in Queensland, Australia...
  
  , Petrogale persephone
• Red-tailed Phascogale
  Red-tailed Phascogale
  The Red-tailed Phascogale , also known as the Red-tailed Wambenger, is a small carnivorous marsupial found in central and western Australia...
  
  , Phascogale calura
• Long-footed Potoroo
  Long-footed Potoroo
  The Long-footed Potoroo is a species of potoroo found in southeastern Australia, in a small area around the coastal border between New South Wales and Victoria. It was discovered in 1967 when an adult male was caught in a dog trap in the forest southwest of Bonang, Victoria...
  
  , Potorous longipes
• Spotted cuscus
• Smoky Mouse
  Smoky Mouse
  The Smoky Mouse, Fausse Souris Fuligineuse, or Raton Bastardo Fumoso is a species of rodent in the family Muridae native to southeastern Australia. It was first described in 1934 and its species name is Latin "smoky". As its name suggests, it is a grey-furred mouse, darker grey above and paler...
  
  , Pseudomys fumeus
• Hastings River Mouse
  Hastings River Mouse
  The Hastings River Mouse is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found only in Australia.-Habitat:These rodents often prefer damp and moist environments, along drainage lines if necessary...
  
  , Pseudomys oralis
• Greater Large-eared Horseshoe Bat, Rhinolophus philippinensis (large form)
• Tasmanian Devil
  Tasmanian Devil
  The Tasmanian devil is a carnivorous marsupial of the family Dasyuridae, now found in the wild only on the Australian island state of Tasmania. The size of a small dog, it became the largest carnivorous marsupial in the world following the extinction of the thylacine in 1936...
  
   Sarcophilus harrisii
• Kangaroo Island Dunnart
  Kangaroo Island Dunnart
  The Kangaroo Island Dunnart is a dark sooty-grey coloured dunnart species first discovered in 1969, with paler underparts of its body. It has an average body length of 170mm-198mm, a snout to anus length of 80-93 mm, a tail measurement of 90-105 mm, a hind foot of 17.5mm, ear length of 18mm and a...
  
  , Sminthopsis aitkeni
• Julia Creek Dunnart
  Julia Creek Dunnart
  The Julia Creek Dunnart is a marsupial with a large buffy brown upperside and white underside. This dunnart has a body length of 100-135 mm with a tail of 60-105 mm to make a total length of between 160-240 mm. Its weight is between 40-70g. The length of the hind foot is between...
  
  , Sminthopsis douglasi
• Sandhill Dunnart
  Sandhill Dunnart
  The Sandhill Dunnart is a species of small carnivorous Australian marsupial of the family Dasyuridae. It is known from four scattered arid areas of Australia: near Lake Amadeus in Northern Territory, the central Eyre Peninsula in South Australia, the southwestern edge of the Great Victoria Desert...
  
  , Sminthopsis psammophila
• Carpentarian Rock-rat, Zyzomys palatalis
• Central Rock-rat, Zyzomys pedunculatus
• Northern Hairy-nosed Wombat
  Northern Hairy-nosed Wombat
  The Northern Hairy-nosed Wombat , also known as the Yaminon, is one of three species of wombats. It is one of the rarest large mammals in the world and is critically endangered...
  
   Lasiorhinus krefftii

Invertebrates

• Tasmanian giant freshwater lobster, Giant Lobster, Giant Freshwater Crayfish Astacopsis gouldi
• Barrow Island Draculoides, Draculoides bramstokeri
  Draculoides bramstokeri
  Draculoides bramstokeri is a small, troglobite, Australian arachnid. Often mistaken for a spider, D. bramstokeri is a schizomid — a small, soil-dwelling invertebrate that walks on six legs and uses two modified front legs as feelers. It uses large fang-like pedipalps, or pincers, to grasp...
  
  
• Mount Arthur Burrowing Crayfish, Engaeus orramakunna
• Burnie Burrowing Crayfish, Engaeus yabbimunna
• A cave-dwelling remipede crustacean
  Crustacean
  Crustaceans form a very large group of arthropods, usually treated as a subphylum, which includes such familiar animals as crabs, lobsters, crayfish, shrimp, krill and barnacles. The 50,000 described species range in size from Stygotantulus stocki at , to the Japanese spider crab with a leg span...
  
  , Lasionectes exleyi
• Giant Gippsland Earthworm
  Giant Gippsland earthworm
  The giant Gippsland earthworm, Megascolides australis, is one of Australia's 1,000 native earthworm species. These Giant earthworms average 1 meter long and 2 cm in diameter and can reach 3 m in length...
  
  , Megascolides australis
• Bathurst Copper
  Bathurst Copper
  Paralucia spinifera, commonly known as the Bathurst Copper, is a species of butterfly in the Lycaenidae family. It is monotypic within the genus Paralucia. It is endemic to Australia...
  
  , Bathurst Copper Butterfly, Bathurst Copper Wing, Bathurst-Lithgow Copper, Purple Copper Butterfly, Paralucia spinifera

Fish

• Red Handfish Brachionichthys politus
• Grey Nurse Shark
  Grey nurse shark
  The sand tiger shark or grey nurse shark is a species of shark that inhabits coastal waters worldwide. It lives very close to the shorelines and beaches of North America, hence the name, sand tiger shark. Despite a fearsome appearance and strong swimming abilities, it is a relatively placid and...
  
   (west coast population) Carcharias taurus (west coast population)
• Great White Shark
  Great white shark
  The great white shark, scientific name Carcharodon carcharias, also known as the great white, white pointer, white shark, or white death, is a large lamniform shark found in coastal surface waters in all major oceans. It is known for its size, with the largest individuals known to have approached...
  
   Carcharodon carcharias

• Edgbaston goby
  Edgbaston goby
  The edgbaston goby is a species of fish in the Gobiidae family. It is endemic to Australia.-Source:* Wager, R. 1996. . Downloaded on 4 August 2007....
  
   Chlamydogobius squamigenus
• Murray hardyhead
  Murray hardyhead
  The Murray hardyhead is a species of fish in the Atherinidae family. It is endemic to Australia.Murray hardyheads are a small freshwater fish native to inland parts of south-eastern Australia. They were once widespread and abundant in the Murray and Murrumbidgee river systems in southern NSW and...
  
   Craterocephalus fluviatilis
• Saddled galaxias
  Saddled galaxias
  The saddled galaxias is a species of fish in the Galaxiidae family. It is endemic to Australia.-Source:* Wager, R. 1996. . Downloaded on 4 August 2007....
  
   Galaxias tanycephalus
• Dwarf galaxias
  Dwarf galaxias (Australia)
  The dwarf galaxias, Galaxiella pusilla, is small Australian freshwater fish from the galaxiid family....
  
   Galaxiella pusilla
• Murray cod
  Murray Cod
  The Murray cod is a large Australian predatory freshwater fish of the Maccullochella genus and the Percichthyidae family. Although the species is a called cod in the vernacular, it is not related to the northern hemisphere marine cod species...
  
  , Cod, Goodoo Maccullochella peelii peelii
• Blind gudgeon
  Blind gudgeon
  The blind gudgeon is a species of fish in the Eleotridae family. It is endemic to cave and groundwater in Australia. It is therefore a form of Stygofauna. It is listed as vulnerable under the Australian Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999.-Sources:* Wager, R. 1996. . ...
  
   Milyeringa veritas
• Flinders Ranges gudgeon Mogurnda clivicola
• Yarra pygmy perch
  Yarra Pygmy Perch
  The yarra pygmy perch is a species of perch-like fish in the Percichthyidae family.It is found only in Australia.-Source:* Wager, R. 1996. . Downloaded on 20 July 2007....
  
   Nannoperca obscura
• Ewens Pygmy Perch, Golden pygmy perch, Variegated Pygmy Perch Nannoperca variegata
• Australian Lungfish, Queensland Lungfish
  Queensland Lungfish
  The Queensland lungfish, Neoceratodus forsteri is the sole surviving member of the family Ceratodontidae and order Ceratodontiformes. It is one of only six extant lungfish species in the world...
  
   Neoceratodus forsteri
• Blind cave eel
  Blind cave eel
  The Blind Cave eel is a species of fish in the Synbranchidae family. It is endemic to caves and groundwater in Australia.-Sources:* Wager, R. 1996. . Downloaded 4 August 2007....
  
   Ophisternon candidum
• Freshwater sawfish, Largetooth sawfish
  Largetooth sawfish
  The largetooth sawfish , also known as the Leichhardt's sawfish or freshwater sawfish, is a sawfish of the family Pristidae, found in shallow Indo-West Pacific oceans between latitudes 11° N and 39° S. As its relatives, it also enters freshwater. This critically endangered species reaches a length...
  
   Pristis microdon
• Australian Grayling
  Australian grayling
  The Australian grayling is a primarily freshwater fish found in coastal rivers in Tasmania and south-eastern Australia. In past decades it has also been known as the “cucumber mullet” or “cucumber herring,” for its cucumber-like odor.-Description and Diet:The Australian grayling is a streamlined...
  
   Prototroctes maraena
• Honey blue-eye
  Honey blue-eye
  The honey blue-eye is a species of fish in the Pseudomugilidae family. It is endemic to Australia.Honey blue-eyes are small, pale honey coloured fish that attain up to 3cms in length when adult. The females have clear fins. Male Honey blue-eyes have distinct black submarginal bands and white...
  
   Pseudomugil mellis
• Whale Shark
  Whale shark
  The whale shark, Rhincodon typus, is a slow-moving filter feeding shark, the largest extant fish species. The largest confirmed individual had a length of and a weight of more than , but unconfirmed claims report considerably larger whale sharks...
  
   Rhincodon typus
• Waterfall Bay Handfish Sympterichthys sp. [CSIRO #T1996.01]
• Ziebell's Handfish Sympterichthys sp. [CSIRO #T6.01]

Frogs

• Orange-bellied Frog Geocrinia vitellina
• Giant Burrowing Frog
  Giant Burrowing Frog
  The Giant Burrowing Frog is a large frog species that occurs in coastal south east New South Wales and Victoria in Australia-Physical description:...
  
   Heleioporus australiacus
• Green and Golden Bell Frog
  Green and Golden Bell Frog
  The Green and Golden Bell Frog , also named the Green Bell Frog, Green and Golden Swamp Frog and Green Frog, is a ground-dwelling tree frog native to eastern Australia. Despite its classification and climbing abilities, it does not live in trees and spends almost all of its time close to ground level...
  
   Litoria aurea
• Littlejohn's Tree Frog
  Littlejohn's Tree Frog
  The Littlejohn's Tree Frog , also called a heath frog or Orange-bellied Tree Frog, is a species of tree frog native to eastern Australia from Wyong, New South Wales to Buchan, Victoria.-Physical description:...
  
  , Heath Frog Litoria littlejohni
• Wallum Sedge Frog
  Wallum Sedge Frog
  The Wallum Sedge Frog , also known as the Olongburra Frog or the Sharp-snouted Reed Frog, is endemic to Australia. Varying in color from brown to dark green it inhabits the thick and often acidic marshes of the Wallum along the coast of Queensland and New South Wales. Mating season comes in early...
  
   Litoria olongburensis
• Peppered Tree Frog
  Peppered Tree Frog
  The Peppered Tree Frog, is a species of critically endangered tree frog found in northern New South Wales, Australia.-Distribution:...
  
   Litoria piperata
• Southern Bell Frog, Growling Grass Frog
  Growling Grass Frog
  The Growling Grass Frog , also commonly known as the Southern Bell Frog, Warty Swamp Frog and erroneously as the Green Frog is a species of ground dwelling tree frog is native to South eastern Australia; ranging from southern South Australia along the Murray River though Victoria to New South...
  
  , Warty Bell Frog Litoria raniformis
• Alpine Tree Frog, Verreaux's Alpine Tree Frog Litoria verreauxii alpina
• Stuttering Frog
  Stuttering Frog
  The Stuttering Frog is a large species of frog that inhabits temperate and sub-tropical rainforest and wet sclerophyll forest in Australia.-Distribution:...
  
  , Southern Barred Frog (in Victoria) Mixophyes balbus
• Magnificent Brood Frog
  Magnificent Brood Frog
  The Magnificent Broodfrog is a species of frog in the Myobatrachidae family.It is endemic to Australia....
  
   Pseudophryne covacevichae
• Northern Corroboree Frog Pseudophryne pengilleyi
• Kroombit Tinker Frog
  Kroombit Tinker Frog
  The Kroombit Tinker Frog or Pleione's Torrent Frog is a species of frog in the Myobatrachidae family. It is endemic to south-eastern Queensland in Australia...
  
  , Pleione's Torrent Frog Taudactylus pleione
• Blue Mountains Tree Frog
  Blue Mountains Tree Frog
  The Blue Mountains Tree Frog, is a species of tree frog native to the coastal and highland areas of eastern Australia, from just south of Newcastle NSW, to eastern VIC. The Jenolan Caves Tree Frog, a population formerly separated as L...
  
   Litoria citropa

Reptiles

• Five-clawed worm-skink, Long-legged Worm-skink Anomalopus mackayi
• Pink-tailed Worm-lizard Aprasia parapulchella
• Flinders Ranges Worm-lizard
  Flinders Ranges Worm-lizard
  The Flinders Ranges Worm-lizard is a species of lizard in the Pygopodidae family.It is endemic to Australia.-Refences:* Australasian Reptile & Amphibian Specialist Group 1996. . Downloaded on 28 July 2007....
  
   Aprasia pseudopulchella
• Hermite Island Worm-lizard Aprasia rostrata rostrata
• Green Turtle Chelonia mydas
• Lord Howe Island Gecko Christinus guentheri
• Three-toed Snake-tooth Skink
  Three-Toed Snake-Tooth Skink
  The Three-toed Snake-tooth Skink is a species of skink in the Scincidae family.It is found only in Australia.-Source:* Australasian Reptile & Amphibian Specialist Group 1996. . Downloaded on 20 July 2007....
  
   Coeranoscincus reticulatus
• Yinnietharra Rock Dragon
  Yinnietharra Rock Dragon
  The Yinnietharra Rock Dragon is a species of lizard in the Agamidae family.It is endemic to Western Australia.-References:* Australasian Reptile & Amphibian Specialist Group 1996. . Downloaded on 28 July 2007....
  
   Ctenophorus yinnietharra
• Airlie Island Ctenotus Ctenotus angusticeps
• Lancelin Island Skink
  Lancelin Island Skink
  The Lancelin Island Skink is a species of skink in the Scincidae family.It is found only in Australia.-Source:* Australasian Reptile & Amphibian Specialist Group 1996. . Downloaded on 20 July 2007....
  
   Ctenotus lancelini
• Hamelin Ctenotus
  Hamelin Ctenotus
  The Hamelin Ctenotus is a species of skink in the Scincidae family.It is found only in Australia.-Source:* Australasian Reptile & Amphibian Specialist Group 1996. . Downloaded on 20 July 2007....
  
   Ctenotus zastictus
• Striped Legless Lizard
  Striped Legless Lizard
  The Striped Legless Lizard is a species of lizard in the Pygopodidae family.It is endemic to Australia.-References:* Australasian Reptile & Amphibian Specialist Group 1996. . Retrieved on 28 July 2007....
  
   Delma impar
• Striped-tailed Delma Delma labialis
• Atherton Delma, Legless lizard
  Legless lizard
  Legless lizard may refer to any of several groups of lizards which have independently lost limbs or reduced them to the point of being of no use in locomotion. It is the common name for the family Pygopodidae, but often refers to other groups, such as limbless anguids, depending upon the region of...
  
   Delma mitella
• Collared Delma
  Collared Delma
  The Collared Delma is a species of lizard in the Pygopodidae family.It is endemic to Australia.-References:* Australasian Reptile & Amphibian Specialist Group 1996. . Retrieved on 28 July 2007....
  
   Delma torquata
• Ornamental Snake
  Ornamental Snake
  The Ornamental Snake is a small elapid snake found in the Bowen Basin of Queensland, Australia. Ornamental snakes grow to about 40 centimetres in length and appear to be primarily frog eaters. They are nocturnal, and are thought to shelter in soil cracks during the day...
  
   Denisonia maculata
• Great Desert Skink
  Great Desert Skink
  The Great Desert Skink is a species of skink in the genus Egernia native to the western half of Australia . They are burrowing lizards and extremely social.- Description :...
  
  , Tjakura, Warrarna, Mulyamiji Egernia kintorei
• Yakka Skink Egernia rugosa
• Baudin Island Spiny-tailed Skink Egernia stokesii aethiops
• Bell's Turtle, Namoi River Turtle, Bell's Saw-shelled Turtle Elseya belli
• Bellinger River Emydura (Bellinger River, NSW) Emydura signata
• Hawksbill Turtle
  Hawksbill turtle
  The hawksbill sea turtle is a critically endangered sea turtle belonging to the family Cheloniidae. It is the only extant species in its genus. The species has a worldwide distribution, with Atlantic and Pacific subspecies. E. imbricata imbricata is the Atlantic subspecies, while E...
  
   Eretmochelys imbricata
• Dunmall's Snake
  Dunmall's Snake
  The Dunmall's Snake is a species of snake in the Elapidae family.It is endemic to Australia, with a pathcy distribution in south-east Queensland and the border area with New South Wales from Yelarbon, Texas, Queensland, and Ashford...
  
   Furina dunmalli
• Broad-headed Snake
  Broad-Headed Snake
  The Broad-Headed Snake is a venomous snake that is restricted to the Sydney Basin in NSW, Australia. It is one of 3 snakes in the genus Hoplocephalus, all restricted to eastern Australia...
  
   Hoplocephalus bungaroides
• Christmas Island Gecko, Lister's Gecko Lepidodactylus listeri
• Mount Cooper Striped Lerista
  Mount Cooper Striped Lerista
  The Mount Cooper Striped Lerista is a species of skink in the Scincidae family.It is found only in Australia.-Source:* Australasian Reptile & Amphibian Specialist Group 1996. . Downloaded on 20 July 2007....
  
   Lerista vittata
• Olive Python (Pilbara subspecies) Liasis olivacea barroni
• Flatback Turtle
  Flatback Turtle
  The flatback sea turtle is a sea turtle that is endemic to the continental shelf of Australia. Flatback turtles belong to the Cheloniidae, or sea turtle, superfamily and are the only species found in the genus Natator....
  
   Natator depressus
• Pernatty Knob-tail Nephrurus deleani
• Pedra Branca Skink
  Pedra Branca Skink
  The Pedra Branca Cool-skink, Pedra Branca Skink, or Red-throated Skink is a species of skink in the Scincidae family. It is endemic to Australia, and is restricted to Pedra Branca, an island off southern Tasmania of only 2.5 ha, where it is dependent on the seabird colonies....
  
  , Red-throated Skink Niveoscincus palfreymani
• Krefft's Tiger Snake (Flinders Ranges) Notechis ater ater
• Bronzeback Snake-lizard
  Bronzeback Snake-lizard
  The Bronzeback Snake-lizard is a species of lizard in the Pygopodidae family.It is endemic to Australia.-References:* Australasian Reptile & Amphibian Specialist Group 1996. . Downloaded on 28 July 2007....
  
   Ophidiocephalus taeniatus
• Brigalow Scaly-foot
  Brigalow Scaly-foot
  The Brigalow Scaly-foot or Queensland Snake-lizard is a species of lizard in the Pygopodidae family.It is endemic to Australia.-References:...
  
   Paradelma orientalis
• Lord Howe Island Skink
  Lord Howe Island skink
  The Lord Howe Island Skink is a species of skink in the Scincidae family. It is found on Australia's Norfolk and Lord Howe Islands.-References:* Australasian Reptile & Amphibian Specialist Group 1996.* ....
  
   Pseudemoia lichenigera
• Christmas Island Blind Snake Ramphotyphlops exocoeti
• Fitzroy Tortoise Rheodytes leukops
• Border Thick-tailed Gecko Underwoodisaurus sphyrurus

Birds

• Slender-billed Thornbill
  Slender-billed Thornbill
  The Slender-billed Thornbill is a small bird native to Australia. It includes three separate sub-species:* A. i. hedleyi* A. i. iredalei* A. i. rosinae...
  
   (western) Acanthiza iredalei iredalei
• Grey Grasswren
  Grey Grasswren
  The Grey Grasswren is a species of bird in the Maluridae family.It is endemic to Australia.-References:* BirdLife International 2004. . Downloaded on 25 July 2007....
  
   (Bulloo) Amytornis barbatus barbatus
• Thick-billed Grasswren
  Thick-billed Grasswren
  The Thick-billed Grasswren is a species of bird in the Maluridae family.It is endemic to Australia.Its natural habitat is Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation.-References:...
  
   (eastern) Amytornis textilis modestus
• Thick-billed Grasswren
  Thick-billed Grasswren
  The Thick-billed Grasswren is a species of bird in the Maluridae family.It is endemic to Australia.Its natural habitat is Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation.-References:...
  
   (Gawler Ranges) Amytornis textilis myall
• Australian Lesser Noddy Anous tenuirostris melanops
• Noisy Scrub-bird
  Noisy Scrub-bird
  The Noisy Scrub-bird is a species of bird in the Atrichornithidae family. It is endemic to Australia.-Distribution and habitat:...
  
   Atrichornis clamosus
• Muir's Corella
  Muir's Corella
  Muir's Corella is a stocky, medium-sized white cockatoo endemic to Western Australia. It is the threatened nominate subspecies of the Western Corella.-Description:...
  
   (southern), Western Long-billed Corella (southern) Cacatua pastinator pastinator
• Baudin's Black-Cockatoo, Long-billed Black-Cockatoo
  Long-billed Black-Cockatoo
  The Long-billed Black Cockatoo, also known as the White-tailed Black Cockatoo or Baudin's Black Cockatoo is a cockatoo endemic to south-western Australia, closely associated to moist, heavily forested areas dominated by Marri .The binomial commemorates the French explorer Nicolas...
  
   Calyptorhynchus baudinii
• Cape Barren Goose
  Cape Barren Goose
  The Cape Barren Goose is a large goose resident in southern Australia. The species is named for Cape Barren Island, where specimens were first sighted by European explorers.-Taxonomy:...
  
   (south-western), Recherche Cape Barren Goose Cereopsis novaehollandiae grisea

• Western Bristlebird
  Western Bristlebird
  The Western Bristlebird is a species of bird in the Dasyornithidae family.It is endemic to Australia.- Description :...
  
   Dasyornis longirostris
• Antipodean Albatross
  Antipodean Albatross
  The Antipodean Albatross, Diomedea antipodensis, is a large seabird, from the albatross family. Antipodean Albatrosses are smaller than Wandering Albatrosses, and breed in predominantly brown plumage, but are otherwise difficult to distinguish from Wanderers.-Etymology:Diomedea antipodensis breaks...
  
   Diomedea antipodensis
• Southern Royal Albatross
  Southern Royal Albatross
  The Southern Royal Albatross, Diomedea epomophora, is a large seabird from the albatross family. At an average wingspan of around , it is the second largest albatross, behind the Wandering Albatross.-Taxonomy:...
  
   Diomedea epomophora
• Wandering Albatross
  Wandering Albatross
  The Wandering Albatross, Snowy Albatross or White-winged Albatross, Diomedea exulans, is a large seabird from the family Diomedeidae, which has a circumpolar range in the Southern Ocean. It was the first species of albatross to be described, and was long considered the same species as the Tristan...
  
   Diomedea exulans
• Gibson's Albatross Diomedea gibsoni
• Red Goshawk
  Red Goshawk
  The Red Goshawk is probably the rarest Australian bird of prey. It is found mainly in the savanna woodlands of northern Australia, particularly near watercourses...
  
   Erythrotriorchis radiatus
• Crested Shrike-tit
  Crested Shrike-tit
  The Crested Shrike-tit is a bird endemic to Australia where it inhabits open eucalypt forest and woodland.-Taxonomy and distribution:...
  
   (northern), Northern Shrike-tit Falcunculus frontatus whitei
• Christmas Island Frigatebird
  Christmas Island Frigatebird
  The Christmas Frigatebird or Christmas Island Frigatebird is a frigatebird endemic to the Christmas Islands in the Indian Ocean...
  
  , Andrew's frigatebird Fregata andrewsi
• White-bellied Storm-Petrel
  White-bellied Storm-petrel
  The White-bellied Storm Petrel is a species of seabird in the Hydrobatidae family.It is found in Angola, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, French Polynesia, French Southern Territories, Maldives, Namibia, New Zealand, Saint Helena, South Africa, and South Georgia and the South Sandwich...
  
   (Tasman Sea or Australasian) Fregetta grallaria grallaria
• Squatter Pigeon
  Squatter Pigeon
  The Squatter Pigeon is a species of bird in the Columbidae family.It is endemic to Australia.According to the Dept of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts, the nominate subspecies, Southern Squatter Pigeon is listed as vulnerable.-References:* BirdLife International 2004....
  
   (southern) Geophaps scripta scripta
• Partridge Pigeon
  Partridge Pigeon
  The Partridge Pigeon is a species of bird in the Columbidae family.It is endemic to Australia.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry shrubland and subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland....
  
   (western) Geophaps smithii blaauwi
• Partridge Pigeon
  Partridge Pigeon
  The Partridge Pigeon is a species of bird in the Columbidae family.It is endemic to Australia.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry shrubland and subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland....
  
   (eastern) Geophaps smithii smithii
• Blue Petrel
  Blue Petrel
  The Blue Petrel is a small seabird in the family Procellariidae. This small petrel is the only member of the genus Halobaena but is closely allied to the prions.-Taxonomy:...
  
   Halobaena caerulea
• Malleefowl
  Malleefowl
  The Malleefowl is a stocky ground-dwelling Australian bird about the size of a domestic chicken...
  
   Leipoa ocellata
• Northern Giant-Petrel Macronectes halli
• Purple-crowned Fairy-wren
  Purple-crowned Fairy-wren
  The Purple-crowned Fairywren is a species of bird in the Maluridae family.It is endemic to northern Australia; two subspecies are recognized....
  
   (western) Malurus coronatus coronatus
• White-winged Fairy-wren
  White-winged Fairy-wren
  The White-winged Fairywren is a species of passerine bird in the fairywren family Maluridae. It lives in the drier parts of central Australia; from central Queensland and South Australia across to Western Australia...
  
   (Barrow Island), Barrow Island Black-and-white Fairy-wren Malurus leucopterus edouardi
• White-winged Fairy-wren
  White-winged Fairy-wren
  The White-winged Fairywren is a species of passerine bird in the fairywren family Maluridae. It lives in the drier parts of central Australia; from central Queensland and South Australia across to Western Australia...
  
   (Dirk Hartog Island), Dirk Hartog Black-and-White Fairy-wren Malurus leucopterus leucopterus
• Crimson Finch
  Crimson Finch
  The Crimson Finch, Neochmia phaeton, is a common species of estrildid finch found in Australia, West Papua, Indonesia & Papua New Guinea. It has an estimated global extent of occurrence of 100,000- 1,000,000 km²....
  
   (white-bellied) Neochmia phaeton evangelinae
• Christmas Island Hawk-Owl
  Christmas Island Hawk-Owl
  The Christmas Boobook , also known as the Christmas Island Hawk-Owl, is a species of owl in the Strigidae family. It is endemic to Christmas Island. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist shrubland. It is threatened by habitat loss...
  
   Ninox natalis
• Golden Whistler
  Golden Whistler
  The Australian Golden Whistler is a species of bird found in forest, woodland, mallee, mangrove and scrub in Australia and in mountain forest in the Snow Mountains in the Papua Province of Indonesia. Most populations are resident, but some in south-eastern Australia migrate north during the winter...
  
   (Norfolk Island) Pachycephala pectoralis xanthoprocta

• Red-lored Whistler
  Red-lored Whistler
  The Red-Lored Whistler is similar, in many respects, to the Gilbert Whistler, to which it is clearly related, and from which it must be distinguished: the range of the Red-lored Whistler falls entirely within that of the Gilbert Whistler. The two species share the same habitat, behaviour and even...
  
   Pachycephala rufogularis
• Fairy Prion
  Fairy Prion
  The Fairy Prion is a small seabird with the standard prion plumage of black upperparts and white underneath with an "M" wing marking.-Taxonomy:...
  
   (southern) Pachyptila turtur subantarctica
• Plains-wanderer Pedionomus torquatus
• Scarlet Robin
  Scarlet Robin
  The Scarlet Robin is a common red-breasted Australasian robin in the passerine bird genus Petroica. The species is found on continental Australia and its offshore islands, including Tasmania...
  
   (Norfolk Island) Petroica multicolor multicolor
• Heard Shag
  Heard Shag
  The Heard Island Shag , or Heard Island Cormorant, is a marine cormorant native to the Australian territory comprising the Heard and McDonald Islands in the Southern Ocean, about 4100 km south-west of Perth, Western Australia.-Taxonomy:The Heard Island Shag is one of the blue-eyed shags,...
  
   Phalacrocorax nivalis
• Macquarie Shag
  Macquarie Shag
  The Macquarie Shag , Macquarie Island Shag or Macquarie Island Cormorant, is a marine cormorant native to Macquarie Island in the Southern Ocean, about halfway between Australia and Antarctica....
  
   Phalacrocorax purpurascens
• Sooty Albatross
  Sooty Albatross
  The Sooty Albatross, Dark-mantled Sooty Albatross or Dark-mantled Albatross, Phoebetria fusca, is a species of bird in the albatross family...
  
   Phoebetria fusca
• Princess Parrot
  Princess Parrot
  The colourful Princess Parrot, Polytelis alexandrae, is an Australian bird of the parrot family. Its name was given in honour of Princess Alexandra of Denmark, who later married the Prince of Wales Edward VII and eventually became the Queen of England...
  
  , Alexandra's Parrot Polytelis alexandrae
• Regent Parrot
  Regent Parrot
  The Regent Parrot is a bird of the parrot family . It has predominantly yellow plumage with a green tail. The bird is found primarily in eucalyptus groves and other wooded areas of subtropical southwestern Australia, as well as to a smaller area of subtropical and temperate southeastern Australia...
  
   (eastern) Polytelis anthopeplus anthopeplus (incorrect subspecies)
• Superb Parrot
  Superb Parrot
  The Superb Parrot , is a parrot native to southeastern Australia...
  
   Polytelis swainsonii
• Western Whipbird
  Western Whipbird
  The Western Whipbird is a passerine bird found in several scattered populations across southern Australia. It is predominantly olive green in colour....
  
   (eastern) Psophodes nigrogularis leucogaster
• Western Whipbird
  Western Whipbird
  The Western Whipbird is a passerine bird found in several scattered populations across southern Australia. It is predominantly olive green in colour....
  
   (western mallee) Psophodes nigrogularis oberon
• Soft-plumaged Petrel
  Soft-plumaged Petrel
  The Soft-plumaged Petrel is a species of seabird in the Procellariidae family.-Distribution:It breeds on islands in the Southern Hemisphere, nesting on Tristan da Cunha, Gough Island, the Prince Edward Islands, Crozet Islands, Macquarie Island, and on the Antipodes Islands of New Zealand. Small...
  
   Pterodroma mollis
• Kermadec Petrel
  Kermadec Petrel
  The Kermadec Petrel is a species of seabird in the Procellariidae family.-Distribution:It is found in Australia, Chile, Japan, Mexico, Micronesia, New Zealand, Norfolk Island, Pitcairn, and the United States....
  
   (western) Pterodroma neglecta neglecta
• Australian Painted Snipe
  Australian Painted Snipe
  The Australian Painted Snipe is a medium-sized, long-billed, distinctively patterned wader.-Taxonomy:The distinctiveness of the Australian Painted-snipe was recognised by John Gould in 1838 when he described and named it Rostratula australis. However, it was subsequently lumped with the Greater...
  
   Rostratula australis
• Antarctic Tern
  Antarctic Tern
  The Antarctic Tern is a typical tern. It ranges throughout the southern oceans. It is very similar in appearance to the closely related Arctic Tern, but is stockier, and the wing tips are grey instead of blackish in flight...
  
   (Indian Ocean) Sterna vittata vittata
• Southern Emu-wren
  Southern Emu-wren
  The Southern Emu-wren is a species of bird in the Maluridae family. It is endemic to Australia. Its natural habitats are temperate forests and Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation.-Taxonomy:...
  
   (Eyre Peninsula) Stipiturus malachurus parimeda
• Mallee Emu-wren
  Mallee Emu-wren
  The Mallee Emu-wren is a bird species in the family Maluridae. It is endemic to Australia.Its natural habitat is temperate grassland. It is threatened by habitat loss.-Taxonomy:...
  
   Stipiturus mallee
• Lord Howe Island Currawong, Pied Currawong
  Pied Currawong
  The Pied Currawong is a medium-sized black passerine bird native to eastern Australia and Lord Howe Island. One of three currawong species in the genus Strepera, it is closely related to the butcherbirds and Australian Magpie of the family Artamidae. Six subspecies are recognised...
  
   (Lord Howe Island) Strepera graculina crissalis
• Buller's Albatross
  Buller's Albatross
  Buller's Albatross or Buller's Mollymawk, Thalassarche bulleri, is a small mollymawk in the albatross family. It breeds on islands around New Zealand, and feeds in the seas off Australia and the South Pacific.-Taxonomy:...
  
   Thalassarche bulleri
• Indian Yellow-nosed Albatross
  Indian Yellow-nosed Albatross
  The Indian Yellow-nosed Albatross, Thalassarche carteri, in the albatross family, and is the smallest of the mollymawks. In 2004, BirdLife International split this species from the Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross; however Clements has not split it yet, and the SACC has not either, but recognizes...
  
   Thalassarche carteri
• Shy Albatross
  Shy Albatross
  The Shy Albatross or Shy Mollymawk, Thalassarche cauta, is a medium sized albatross that breeds off Australia and New Zealand's sub-Antarctic islands and ranges extensively across the Southern Ocean...
  
   Thalassarche cauta
• Grey-headed Albatross
  Grey-headed Albatross
  The Grey-headed Albatross, Thalassarche chrysostoma, also known as the Grey-headed Mollymawk, is a large seabird from the albatross family. It has a circumpolar distribution, nesting on isolated islands in the Southern Ocean and feeding at high latitudes, further south than any of the other...
  
   Thalassarche chrysostoma
• Campbell Albatross
  Campbell Albatross
  The Campbell Albatross or Campbell Mollymawk, Thalassarche impavida, is a medium-sized mollymawk in the albatross family. It breeds only on Campbell Island and the associated islet of Jeanette Marie, a small New Zealand island group in the South Pacific. It is sometimes considered a subspecies of...
  
   Thalassarche impavida
• Black-browed Albatross
  Black-browed Albatross
  The Black-browed Albatross or Black-browed Mollymawk, Thalassarche melanophrys, is a large seabird of the albatross family Diomedeidae, and it is the most widespread and common albatross.-Taxonomy:...
  
   Thalassarche melanophris
• Pacific Albatross Thalassarche nov. sp.
• Salvin's Albatross
  Salvin's Albatross
  Salvin's Albatross, or Salvin's Mollymawk, Thalassarche salvini, is a large seabird that ranges across the Southern Ocean. A medium sized mollymawk in the albatross family, it was long considered to be a subspecies of the Shy Albatross...
  
   Thalassarche salvini
• White-capped Albatross
  White-capped Albatross
  The White-capped Albatross, Thalassarche steadi, is a mollymawk that breeds on the islands off of New Zealand. Not all experts agree that this form should be recognized as a separate species to the Shy Albatross, Thalassarche cauta...
  
   Thalassarche steadi
• Lord Howe Woodhen
  Lord Howe Woodhen
  The Lord Howe Woodhen, Gallirallus sylvestris, also known as the Lord Howe Island Woodhen or Lord Howe Rail, is a flightless bird of the rail family . It is endemic to Lord Howe Island off the Australian coast. It is a small olive brown bird, with a short tail and a downcurved bill...
  
   Tricholimnas sylvestris
• Black-breasted Button-quail Turnix melanogaster
• Painted Button-quail (Houtman Abrolhos) Turnix varius scintillans
• Masked Owl (northern) Tyto novaehollandiae kimberli

Mammals

• Sub-antarctic Fur-seal Arctocephalus tropicalis
• Sei Whale
  Sei Whale
  The sei whale , Balaenoptera borealis, is a baleen whale, the third-largest rorqual after the blue whale and the fin whale. It inhabits most oceans and adjoining seas, and prefers deep offshore waters. It avoids polar and tropical waters and semi-enclosed bodies of water...
  
   Balaenoptera borealis
• Fin Whale
  Fin Whale
  The fin whale , also called the finback whale, razorback, or common rorqual, is a marine mammal belonging to the suborder of baleen whales. It is the second longest whale and the sixth largest living animal after the blue whale, bowhead whale, and right whales, growing to nearly 27 metres long...
  
   Balaenoptera physalus
• Boodie
  Boodie
  The Boodie , also known as the Burrowing Bettong, is a small marsupial. It is a fascinating example of the effects of introduced animals on Australian fauna and ecosystems. Once the most common macropodiform mammal on the whole continent, the Boodie now only lives on off-lying islands and in a...
  
  , Burrowing Bettong (Shark Bay) Bettongia lesueur lesueur
• Boodie
  Boodie
  The Boodie , also known as the Burrowing Bettong, is a small marsupial. It is a fascinating example of the effects of introduced animals on Australian fauna and ecosystems. Once the most common macropodiform mammal on the whole continent, the Boodie now only lives on off-lying islands and in a...
  
  , Burrowing Bettong (Barrow and Boodie Islands) Bettongia lesueur unnamed subsp
• Large-eared Pied Bat
  Large-eared Pied Bat
  The Large-Eared Pied Bat is a species of vesper bat in the Vespertilionidae family.This vulnerable mammal can be found in the Australia.-References:* Chiroptera Specialist Group 1996. . Downloaded on 09 July 2007....
  
  , Large Pied Bat Chalinolobus dwyeri
• Kowari
  Kowari
  The Kowari , also known as the Brush-tailed Marsupial Rat, Kayer Rat, Byrne's Crest-tailed Marsupial Rat, Bushy-tailed Marsupial Rat and Kawiri, is a small carnivorous marsupial native to the dry grasslands and deserts of central Australia...
  
   Dasycercus byrnei
• Mulgara
  Mulgara
  Mulgaras are the two species in the genus Dasycercus. They are marsupial carnivores, closely related to the Tasmanian Devil and the quolls, that live in deserts and spinifex bush of central Australia. They are 12.5–22 cm long with a 7–13 cm tail. They are nocturnal but occasionally...
  
   Dasycercus cristicauda
• Chuditch, Western Quoll
  Western Quoll
  The western quoll , also known as the chuditch or western native cat, is a medium sized predator and like its eastern and northern relatives, has a white-spotted brown coat and a long tail. It is most closely related to the eastern quoll from which it differs in possessing a first toe on the...
  
   Dasyurus geoffroii
• Spot-tailed Quoll, Spotted-tail Quoll, Tiger Quoll
  Tiger Quoll
  The tiger quoll , also known as the spotted-tail quoll, the spotted quoll, the spotted-tailed dasyure or the tiger cat, is a carnivorous marsupial of the quoll genus Dasyurus native to Australia...
  
   (Tasmanian population) Dasyurus maculatus maculatus (Tasmanian population)
• Golden Bandicoot
  Golden Bandicoot
  The Golden Bandicoot is a short-nosed bandicoot found in northern Australia. It is by far the smallest of its genus, being a little over half the size of its relatives the Northern Brown Bandicoot and the Southern Brown Bandicoot .The Golden Bandicoot is now a threatened species...
  
   (mainland) Isoodon auratus auratus
• Golden Bandicoot
  Golden Bandicoot
  The Golden Bandicoot is a short-nosed bandicoot found in northern Australia. It is by far the smallest of its genus, being a little over half the size of its relatives the Northern Brown Bandicoot and the Southern Brown Bandicoot .The Golden Bandicoot is now a threatened species...
  
   (Barrow Island) Isoodon auratus barrowensis
• Southern Brown Bandicoot
  Southern Brown Bandicoot
  The Southern Brown Bandicoot , also known as the Quenda from the local Noongar tongue from South Western Australia, is a short-nosed bandicoot found mostly in southern Australia....
  
   (Nuyts Archipelago) Isoodon obesulus nauticus
• Spectacled Hare-wallaby
  Spectacled Hare-wallaby
  The Spectacled Hare-wallaby is a species of macropod found in Australia and New Guinea. In Australia, a small sub-population is found on Barrow Island, while the mainland type is widespread, though in decline, across northern regions of the country.-Description:A species of Lagorchestes,...
  
   (Barrow Island) Lagorchestes conspicillatus conspicillatus
• Rufous Hare-wallaby
  Rufous Hare-wallaby
  The rufous hare-wallaby , also known as the Mala, is a small macropod found in Australia. It was formerly widely distributed across the western half of the continent but is now confined to Bernier Island and Dorre Island Islands off Western Australia...
  
   (Bernier Island) Lagorchestes hirsutus bernieri
• Rufous Hare-wallaby
  Rufous Hare-wallaby
  The rufous hare-wallaby , also known as the Mala, is a small macropod found in Australia. It was formerly widely distributed across the western half of the continent but is now confined to Bernier Island and Dorre Island Islands off Western Australia...
  
   (Dorre Island) Lagorchestes hirsutus dorreae
• Banded Hare-wallaby
  Banded Hare-wallaby
  The Banded Hare-wallaby or Mernine is a marsupial that is currently found on the Islands of Bernier and Dorre off western Australia. A small population has recently been established on Faure Island and it appears to have been successful...
  
  , Marnine, Munning Lagostrophus fasciatus fasciatus
• Wopilkara, Greater Stick-nest Rat
  Greater Stick-Nest Rat
  The Greater Stick-nest Rat, House-building Rat is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found only in Australia on the Franklin Islands and St Peter Island in the Nuyts Archipelago, Reevesby Island, Salutation Island, Faure Island and Heirisson Prong, and a fenced off area at Roxby Downs...
  
   Leporillus conditor
• Barrow Island Euro Macropus robustus isabellinus
• Greater Bilby
  Greater Bilby
  The Bilby, Macrotis lagotis, is an Australian species of nocturnal omnivorous animal in the Peramelemorphia order. The common name Bilby usually refers to this species, but is distinguished from Macrotis leucura that became extinct in the 1950s by the name Greater Bilby. It is also referred to as...
  
   Macrotis lagotis
• Humpback Whale
  Humpback Whale
  The humpback whale is a species of baleen whale. One of the larger rorqual species, adults range in length from and weigh approximately . The humpback has a distinctive body shape, with unusually long pectoral fins and a knobbly head. It is an acrobatic animal, often breaching and slapping the...
  
   Megaptera novaeangliae
• Golden-backed Tree-rat Mesembriomys macrurus
• Southern Elephant Seal
  Southern Elephant Seal
  The Southern Elephant Seal is one of the two extant species of elephant seal. It is both the most massive pinniped and member of the order Carnivora living today...
  
   Mirounga leonina
• Numbat
  Numbat
  The numbat , also known as the banded anteater, or walpurti, is a marsupial found in Western Australia. Its diet consists almost exclusively of termites. Once widespread across southern Australia, the range is now restricted to several small colonies and it is listed as an endangered species...
  
   Myrmecobius fasciatus
• Australian Sea-lion Neophoca cinerea
• Northern Hopping-mouse Notomys aquilo
• Dusky Hopping-mouse, Wilkiniti Notomys fuscus
• Eastern Long-eared Bat Nyctophilus timoriensis (South-eastern form)
• Eastern Barred Bandicoot
  Eastern Barred Bandicoot
  The Eastern Barred Bandicoot was once distributed across the Basalt Plains of south west Victoria, and in Tasmania. It is a small, rabbit sized marsupial weighing less than 1 kg with a short tail and three to four whitish bars across the rump. It lives for just two to three years and is not...
  
   (Tasmania) Perameles gunnii gunnii
• Fluffy Glider, Yellow-bellied Glider
  Yellow-bellied Glider
  The Yellow-bellied Glider is an arboreal and nocturnal gliding possum that lives in a narrow range of native eucalypt forests down eastern Australia, reaching from northern Queensland to Victoria.-Habitat:...
  
   (Wet Tropics) Petaurus australis unnamed subsp.
• Warru, Black-footed Rock-wallaby (MacDonnell Ranges race) Petrogale lateralis MacDonnell Ranges race
• Black-footed Rock-wallaby (West Kimberley race) Petrogale lateralis West Kimberley race
• Recherche Rock-wallaby Petrogale lateralis hacketti
• Black-flanked Rock-wallaby
  Black-flanked Rock-wallaby
  The Black-flanked Rock-wallaby , also known as the Black-footed Rock-wallaby or Warru, is a kind of wallaby, one of several rock-wallabies in the genus Petrogale.-Description:...
  
   Petrogale lateralis lateralis
• Pearson Island Rock-wallaby Petrogale lateralis pearsoni
• Brush-tailed Rock-wallaby
  Brush-tailed Rock-wallaby
  The Brush-tailed Rock-wallaby or Small-eared Rock-wallaby is a kind of wallaby, one of several rock-wallabies in the genus Petrogale. It inhabits rock piles and cliff lines along the Great Dividing Range from about 100 km north-west of Brisbane to northern Victoria, in vegetation ranging from...
  
   Petrogale penicillata
• Yellow-footed Rock-wallaby
  Yellow-footed Rock-wallaby
  The Yellow-footed Rock-wallaby is a member of the macropod family ....
  
   (SA and NSW) Petrogale xanthopus xanthopus
• Long-nosed Potoroo
  Long-nosed Potoroo
  The Long-nosed Potoroo is a species of Australian potoroo. It is listed as Endangered in Victoria , Vulnerable in Queensland and nationally , although the IUCN lists it as Lower Risk.At first glance the Long-nosed Potoroo with its...
  
   (SE mainland) Potorous tridactylus tridactylus
• Carpentarian Antechinus Pseudantechinus mimulus
• Western Ringtail Possum
  Western Ringtail Possum
  The Western Ringtail Possum or Ngwayir is a possum found in Western Australia, regarded as a subspecies of Common Ringtail Possum, or as a separate species.-Description:...
  
   Pseudocheirus occidentalis
• Plains Rat Pseudomys australis
• Djoongari, Alice Springs Mouse, Shark Bay Mouse
  Shark Bay Mouse
  The Shark Bay Mouse, Djoongari or Alice Springs Mouse is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is found only in Australia, restricted to four islands in the Shark Bay area. It was once found throughout the western two thirds of Australia but it suffered greatly after the arrival of...
  
   Pseudomys fieldi
• Pilliga Mouse
  Pilliga Mouse
  The Pilliga Mouse is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found only in the Pilliga forest region of New South Wales, Australia.-References:* Baillie, J. 1996. . Downloaded on 19 July 2007....
  
   Pseudomys pilligaensis
• Dayang
  Dayang
  Jaguar/Sandbox/3 is a township-level division situated in Hefei, Anhui, China....
  
  , Heath Rat Pseudomys shortridgei
• Spectacled Flying-fox
  Spectacled Flying-fox
  The Spectacled Flying Fox , is a megabat also known as the Spectacled Fruit Bat, lives in Australia's north-eastern west regions of Queensland...
  
   Pteropus conspicillatus
• Grey-headed Flying-fox Pteropus poliocephalus
• Pilbara Leaf-nosed Bat Rhinonicteris aurantius(Pilbara form)
• Quokka
  Quokka
  The Quokka , the only member of the genus Setonix, is a small macropod about the size of a domestic cat. Like other marsupials in the macropod family , the Quokka is herbivorous and mainly nocturnal...
  
   Setonix brachyurus
• Butler's Dunnart Sminthopsis butleri
• Boullanger Island Dunnart
  Boullanger Island Dunnart
  The Boullanger Island Dunnart is a species of dunnart found only on Boullanger Island, Western Australia. It was formerly considered a subspecies of the Grey-bellied Dunnart , for which reason it was not assessed by the IUCN in 2008...
  
   Sminthopsis griseoventer boullangerensis
• Common Wombat
  Common Wombat
  The common wombat , also known as the coarse-haired wombat or bare-nosed wombat, is a marsupial, one of three species of wombats and the only one in the genus Vombatus. The common wombat grows to an average of long and a weight of .- Taxonomy :The common wombat was first described by George Shaw...
  
   (Bass Strait) Vombatus ursinus ursinus
• Water Mouse, False Water Rat
  False Water Rat
  Xeromys myoides, the False Water-rat, is a species of rodent native to waterways of Australia and Papua New Guinea.-Description:False water rats have markedly long, flattened heads with small eyes and short, rounded ears. These rats possess just two molars on each side of the upper and lower jaw...
  
   Xeromys myoides
• Arnhem Rock-rat, Arnhem Land Rock-rat Zyzomys maini

Fish

• Orange Roughy
  Orange roughy
  The orange roughy, red roughy, or deep sea perch, Hoplostethus atlanticus, is a relatively large deep-sea fish belonging to the slimehead family . The Marine Conservation Society has categorized orange roughy as vulnerable to exploitation...
  
  , Deep-sea Perch, Red Roughy Hoplostethus atlanticus