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Australia is unusual because the animal population evolved largely out of contact with the other continents. A very high percentage of Australian animals are endemic (found nowhere else) including about 70% of its birds and 95% of its mammals. Over time, marsupials filled most of the ecological niches that are occupied by placental mammals in most other parts of the world. Australia is also home to the only three extant monotreme species in the world - two echidnas and the Platypus. The only placental mammals naturally found on the Australian mainland are bats; a large number of rodents which arrived only about 5 million years ago, and the DingoBreed classification ANKC:Group 4 (Hounds) Breed standards (external link) The Dingo Canis lupus dingo , also known as the warrigal is a type of wolf, probably descended from the Indian Wolf Canis lupus pallipes . It is commonly described as an Australian, which was introduced to Australia by humans perhaps 7000 years ago.

Australia is also home to large and diverse populations of various other types of animal - snakeAcrochordidae Aniliidae Anomalepididae Anomochilidae Atractaspididae Boidae Bolyeriidae Colubridae Cylindrophiidae Elapidae Hydrophiidae Leptotyphlopidae Loxocemidae Pythonidae Tropidophiidae Typhlopidae Uropeltidae Viperidae Xenopeltidae Snakes are colds, lizardThis page is about Lizards the order of reptile. For alternate uses, see Lizard (disambiguation Many, see text. Lizards are reptiles of the order Squamata, which they share with the snakes. They are usually four-legged, with external ear openings and movas, insectsSubclass Apterygota Symphypleona globular springtails Subclass Archaeognatha (jumping bristletails) Subclass Dicondylia Monura extinct Thysanura (common bristletails) Subclass Pterygota Palaeodictyoptera extinct Ephemeroptera (mayflies) Odonata ( dragonfl, spiderSuborder Mesothelae Liphistiidae (primitive burrowing spiders) Suborder Mygalomorphae Atypidae ( atypical tarantula) Antrodiaetidae ( folding trapdoor spider) Mecicobothriidae ( dwarf tarantulas) Hexathelidae ( venomous funnel-web tarantula) Dipluridae (s, birds and fishAtlantic herring, Clupea harengus one of the most abundant species in the world Photo A fish is a poikilothermic (cold-blooded) water-dwelling vertebrate with gills. There are over 27,000 species of fish, making them the most diverse group of vertebrates..

1 Mammals

1.1 Monotremes

1.2 Marsupials

1.3 Placentals

Dingo (introduced)
flying foxes
Rock rats
water buffalo (recently introduced)

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