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Marsupial mole
Genus of marsupials / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Marsupial moles, the Notoryctidae /noʊtəˈrɪktɪdiː/ family, are two species of highly specialized marsupial mammals that are found in the Australian interior.[2] They are small fossorial marsupials that anatomically converge on fossorial placental mammals, such as extant golden moles (Chrysochloridae) and extinct epoicotheres (Pholidota). The species are:
- Notoryctes typhlops (southern marsupial mole, known as the itjaritjari by the Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara people in Central Australia)[3]
- Notoryctes caurinus (northern marsupial mole, also known as the kakarratul)
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Marsupial moles[1] | |
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Southern marsupial mole | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
Order: | Notoryctemorphia |
Family: | Notoryctidae |
Genus: | Notoryctes Stirling, 1891 |
Type species | |
Psammoryctes typhlops Stirling, 1889 | |
Species | |
Notoryctes typhlops Stirling, 1891 | |
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Ranges of the two species |
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