mammals lab quiz 2

Order: Monotremata

Family: Tachyglossidae

- Diet: termites, ants, earthworms, and other insects

- Range: Australia, Tasmania, and New Guinea

- 2 genera (Tachyglossus and Zaglossus) & 4 species (Apr 2026)

Echidnas or spiny anteaters

Order: Monotremata

Family: Ornithorhynchidae

- Diet: Aquatic invertebrates and vegetation

- Range: Eastern Australia and Tasmania

- 1 genus & 1 species: Ornithorhynchus anatinus (Apr 2026)

Duck-billed platypus

Order: Didelphimorphia

Family: Didelphidae

- Diet: Insectivore, Carnivore, or Omnivore

- Range: North, Central, & South America. Southern Canada through southern Argentina

- 18 genera & 131 species (Apr 2026)

New World Opossums

Order: Dasyuromorphia

Family: Dasyuridae

- Diet: Insectivorous or Carnivorous

- Range: Australia, Tasmania, New Guinea

- 17 genera & 86 species (Apr 2026)

Marsupial mice and cats

Order: Dasyuromorphia

Family: Myrmecobiidae

- Total: 48-52 (52 is more than any other land mammal!)

- Diet: Termites, ants, other invertebrates (insectivore)

- Range: Southern regions of Australia (once widespread

- 1 genus & 1 species (Apr 2026)

Numbat or banded anteater

Order: Dasyuromorphia

Family: Thylacinidae

- Confirmed last: 1936

- biggest skull

- sagital crest well developed

- Diet: Carnivorous

- Range: Tasmania; was widespread Australia and New Guinea

- 1 genus & 1 species (Apr 2026)

Tasmanian wolf/tiger, or thylacine

Order: Peramelemorphia

Family: Peramelidae

- Diet: Insectivorous

- protrussion where eye is

- Range: Australia, Tasmania, New Guinea (adjacent islands)

- 6 genera & 22 species (Apr 2026)

Dry-country bandicoots

Order: Diprotodontia

Family: Phascolarctidae

- Diet: Eucalyptus

- Range: Wooded areas of eastern Australia

- 1 genus & 1 species (Apr 2026)

- Koala

Order: Diprotodontia

Family: Vombatidae

- Diet: Herbivorous

- Range: Australia

- 2 genera & 3 species (Apr 2026)

Wombats

Order: Diprotodontia

Family: Phalangeridae

- Diet: Omnivorous

- Range: Australia, Tasmania, New Guinea (& other islands

- 6 genera & 31 species (Apr 2026)

Possums and cuscuses

Order: Diprotodontia

Family: Pseudocheiridae

- Diet: Herbivorous (some species coprophagous)

- Range: Australia and New Guinea

- 5 genera & 20 species (Apr 2026)

- Ring-tailed and greate gliding possums

Order: Diprotodontia

Family: Petauridae

- Diet: insects; sap & gum of eucalypts & acacias

- Range: Australia, Tasmania, New Guinea

- 3 genera & 15 species (Apr 2026)

- Old World Possums

Order: Diprotodontia

Family: Macropodidae

- Diet: Herbivorous

- Range: Australia, New Guinea (and some nearby islands)

- 13 genera & 63 species (Apr 2026)

- Kangaroos, wallabies, quokka

Order: Diprotodontia

Family: Potoroidae

- Diet: Omnivorous and herbivorous

- Range: Eastern & southern Australia (nearby islands); Tasmania

- 4 genera & 8 species (Apr 2026)

- Potorro

Order: Hyracoidea

Family: Procaviidae

- Diet: Herbivorous

- Range: Sub-Saharan Africa, through Egypt to the Near East

- 3 genera & 6 species (Apr 2026)

- Hyraxes or Dassies

Order: Macroscelidea

Family: Macroscelididae

- Diet: Insectivorous

- Range: Sub-Saharan Africa (disjunct)

- 6 genera & 20 species (Apr 2026)

- Elephant Shrews or Sengis

Order: Proboscidea

Family: Elephantidae

- Diet: Herbivore

- Range: Sub-Saharan Africa, SE Asia, India, Nepal

-2 genera & 3 species (Apr 2026)

-Elephants

Order: Sirenia

Family: Trichechidae

- Diet: Herbivore (marine algae)

- Range: Coast of SE USA, West Indies, & adjacent parts of South America, Amazon, & Orinoco drainages of South America; tropical west Africa

- 1 genus & 3 species (Apr 2026)

-Manatees

Order: Pilosa

Family: Choloepidae

- Diet: Folivore with some fruits, buds, and small vertebrates

- Range: Central America through northern South America & in the Amazon Basin

- 1 genus & 2 species (Apr 2026)

-Two-toed sloths

Order: Pilosa

Family: Myrmecophagidae

- Diet: Primarily Ants & termites

- Range: Central & South America (Southern Mexico to northern Argentina)

- 2 genera & 3 species (Apr 2026) Myrmecophaga tridactyla

-Anteaters

Order: Pilosa

Family: Bradypodidae

- Diet: Folivorous

- Range: Central & South America to southern Brazil

- 1 genus & 5 species (Apr 2026)

-Three-toed sloths

Order: Cingulata

Family: Dasypodidae

- Diet: Insectivorous & herbivorous

- Range: Americas, Kansas south to central Argentina

-1 genus & 11 species (Apr 2026; Another family, Chlamyphoridae, with 8 genera, 14 species)

-Armadillos

Order: Tubulidentata

Family: Orycteropodidae

- Diet: Ants & termites

- Range: Sub-Saharan Africa

- 1 genus & 1 species (Apr 2026); Orycteropus after

-Aardvarks

Order: Sirenia

Family: Dugongidae

- Diet: Herbivorous (marine algae)

- Range: Coasts of east Africa, Red Sea, Asia, Australia

- 2 genera & 1 species (Apr 2026)

-Dugongs/Sea Cows

Order: Pilosa

Family: Cyclopedidae

- Diet: Insectivorous (Ants and termites)

- Range: Forests from southern Mexico to Bolivia; can be found in Brazil

- 1 genus & 7 species (Apr 2026)

-Silky anteaters

Order: Afrosoricida

Family: Tenrecidae

- Diet: Insectivorous

- Range: Insectivorous

- 8 genera & 31 species (Apr 2026)

-Tenrecs