Animal distributions

Tachyglossidae/echidnas

Australia, Tasmania, New guinea

Ornithorhynchidae/Platypus

Eastern Australia, tasmania

Didelphidae/Opossums

North, central and south america, southern canada through southern argentina

Dasyuridae/Numbat

Australia, tasmania, new guinea

Thylacinidae/ tasmanian wolf/tiger

Tasmania; was widespread, Australia and New Guinea

Peramelidae/Dry-country bandicoots

Australia, tasmania, new guinea

Phascolarctidae/Koala

Wooded areas of eastern australia

Vombatidae/ wombats

Australia

Phalangeridae/possums and cuscuses

Australia, tasmania, new guinea

Pseudocheiridae/ ring-tailed and greater gliding possums

Australia and new guinea

Petauridae/ gliding and striped possums, trioks

Austrailia, tasmania, new guinea

Macropodidae/ kangaroos

Australia, New Guinea

Potoroidae/ bettongs, Potorros

Eastern and southern Australia, tasmania

Elephantidae

Sub-Saharan Africa, SE Asia, India, Nepal

Procaviidae/ hyraxes

Sub-Saharan Africa, through egypt to near east

Trichechidae/manatees

Coast of SE USA, West indies, south america, tropical west africa

dugongidae/ Dugongs

Coasts of east Africa, Red Sea, Asia and Australia

Orycteropodidae/ aardvarks

Sub-Saharan Africa

Macroscelididae/ elephant shrews

Sub-saharan Africa

Tenrecs/ Tenrecidae

Western and Central africa, madagascar

Dasypodidae/ armadillos

Americas, Kansas south to central argentina

Choloepidae/ two-toed sloths

Central America through northern south america and in the amazon basin

Bradypodidae/ three-toed sloth

Central and south america to souther brazil

Cycloppedidae/ silky anteaters

Forests from southern mexico to bolivia, can be found in brazil

Myrmecophagidae/ anteaters

Central and south america

Cynocephalidae/ colugos

Tropical forests of SE Asia, islands of indonesia

Tupaiidae/ tree shrews

Forested area of SE Asia

Lemuridae/ Lemurs

Madagascar and adjacent Comoro islands

Daubentoniidae/ Aye-ayes

Madagascar

Lorisidae/ lorises and pottos

Central africa, southeast asia, sri lanka

Galagidae/ bushbabies and galagos

Africa

Strepsirrhini (know to order ones)

Madagascar

Tarsiidae/ tarsiers

Archipelagos in SE Asia

Haplorrhini (Platyrrhini)

Southern central america through south america

Cebidae/ Capuchins and squirrel monkeys

Subtropical and tropical areas of central and south america

Callitrichidae

Tropical areas of central and south america

Cercopithecidae

S. Europe into NW africa, throughout africa, central and SE Asia

Hylobatidae/ gibbons and lesser apes

Tropical forests of SE Asia, including Sumatra, Borneo, Java, and other Islands

Hominidae

Nonhuman members restricted to equatorial africa, sumatra and borneo