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Tachyglossidae/echidnas

Australia, Tasmania, New guinea

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Ornithorhynchidae/Platypus

Eastern Australia, tasmania

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Didelphidae/Opossums

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

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Dasyuridae/Numbat

Australia, tasmania, new guinea

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Thylacinidae/ tasmanian wolf/tiger

Tasmania; was widespread, Australia and New Guinea

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Peramelidae/Dry-country bandicoots

Australia, tasmania, new guinea

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Phascolarctidae/Koala

Wooded areas of eastern australia

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Vombatidae/ wombats

Australia

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Phalangeridae/possums and cuscuses

Australia, tasmania, new guinea

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Pseudocheiridae/ ring-tailed and greater gliding possums

Australia and new guinea

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Petauridae/ gliding and striped possums, trioks

Austrailia, tasmania, new guinea

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Macropodidae/ kangaroos

Australia, New Guinea

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Potoroidae/ bettongs, Potorros

Eastern and southern Australia, tasmania

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Elephantidae

Sub-Saharan Africa, SE Asia, India, Nepal

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Procaviidae/ hyraxes

Sub-Saharan Africa, through egypt to near east

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Trichechidae/manatees

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

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dugongidae/ Dugongs

Coasts of east Africa, Red Sea, Asia and Australia

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Orycteropodidae/ aardvarks

Sub-Saharan Africa

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Macroscelididae/ elephant shrews

Sub-saharan Africa

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Tenrecs/ Tenrecidae

Western and Central africa, madagascar

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Dasypodidae/ armadillos

Americas, Kansas south to central argentina

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Choloepidae/ two-toed sloths

Central America through northern south america and in the amazon basin

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Bradypodidae/ three-toed sloth

Central and south america to souther brazil

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Cycloppedidae/ silky anteaters

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

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Myrmecophagidae/ anteaters

Central and south america

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Cynocephalidae/ colugos

Tropical forests of SE Asia, islands of indonesia

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Tupaiidae/ tree shrews

Forested area of SE Asia

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Lemuridae/ Lemurs

Madagascar and adjacent Comoro islands

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Daubentoniidae/ Aye-ayes

Madagascar

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Lorisidae/ lorises and pottos

Central africa, southeast asia, sri lanka

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Galagidae/ bushbabies and galagos

Africa

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Strepsirrhini (know to order ones)

Madagascar

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Tarsiidae/ tarsiers

Archipelagos in SE Asia

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Haplorrhini (Platyrrhini)

Southern central america through south america

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Cebidae/ Capuchins and squirrel monkeys

Subtropical and tropical areas of central and south america

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Callitrichidae

Tropical areas of central and south america

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Cercopithecidae

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

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Hylobatidae/ gibbons and lesser apes

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

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Hominidae

Nonhuman members restricted to equatorial africa, sumatra and borneo