NOTORYCTIDAE, Ogilby, 1892

Russell A. Mittermeier & Don E. Wilson, 2015, Notoryctidae, Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 5 Monotremes and Marsupials, Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, pp. 210-219 : 210

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.6621647
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6611469
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scientific name	NOTORYCTIDAE
status

Treatment

Family NOTORYCTIDAE View in CoL

(MARSUPIAL MOLES)

• Highly specialized fossorial marsupials, lacking eyes and external ears and with thickened snout shields; forelimbs with massive, spade-like Class; tails short, broad, and naked, terminating in knob-like structures.

• 10-15 cm. View Figure

• Australasian Region. View Figure

•Sand-dune deserts of central and western Australia.

•1 genus, 2 species, 2 taxa.

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• No species threatened; none Extinct since 1600.