Other Mammals of the Granite Belt

 

Monotremes

Monotremes are mammals that lay eggs but still suckle their young like all other mammals. 

Monotremes of the Granite Belt include:

• Ornithorhynchus australis - Platypus (C)
• Tachyglossus aculeatus - Short-beaked echidna (C)

 

Carnivorous marsupials 

Carnivorous marsupials (dasyurids) eat insects, birds, reptiles or other small mammals. They usually have a hairy tail and a pointy snout. 

Dasyurids of the Granite Belt include:

• Antechinus flavipes - Yellow-footted antechinus (C)
• Antechinus stuartii - Brown antechinus (C)
• Dasyurus maculatus maculatus - Spotted-tailed quoll (V)
• Smithopsis murina - Common dunnart (C)

 

Herbivorous marsupials

Like the name says, the diet of the herbivorous marsupial consists of plants only. 

Herbivorous marsupials (not elsewhere mentioned) of the Granite Belt include:

• Phascolarctos cinereus - Koala (C)
• Vombatus ursinus - Common wombat (V)

 

Bats, Fruit bats and Flying foxes

Bats, fruit bats and flying foxes are flying mammals whose forelimbs have evolved into wings enabling them to truly fly.

Bats, fruit bats and flying foxes of the Granite Belt include:

• Rhinolopus megaphyllus - Eastern horseshoe bat (C)
• Miniopteris australis - Little bentwing bat (C)
• Miniopteris schreibersii - Common bentwing bat (C)
• Nyctophilus geoffroyi - Lesser long-eared bat (C)
• Nyctophilus gouldi - Gould's long-eared bat (C)
• Chalinolobus morio - Chocolate wattled bat (C)
• Falsistrellus tasmaniensis - Eastern false pipistrelle (C)
• Vespadelus darlingtoni - Large forest bat (C)
• Vespadelus regulus - Southern forest bat (C)

 

Rodents

Rodents are so called because they have two continuously growing teeth (incisors) in the upper and lower jaws, and because they continuously grow they must be kept short by gnawing.

Rodents of the Granite Belt include:

• Hydromys chrysogaster - Water rat (C)
• Mus musculus - House mouse (introduced)
• Rattus fuscipes - Bush rat (C)
• Rattus lutreolus - Swamp rat (C)
• Rattus rattus - Black rat (introduced)

 

Feral animals

Feral animals are so called because they are animals that have escaped domestication and returned to the wild (partly or wholly). 

Feral animals of the Granite Belt include: 

• Canis lupus dingo - Dingo (introduced)
• Vulpes vulpes - Fox (introduced)
• Felis catus - Cat (introduced)
• Oryctolagus cuniculus - Rabbit (introduced)
• Lepus capensis - Brown hare (introduced)
• Sus scrofa - Pig (introduced)
• Dama dama - Fallow deer

 

Key: (C) - common, (E) - endangered, (V) - vulnerable

 Reference: Species List of Wildlife of Girraween National Park, 2004, EPA, QPWS, Brisbane

 

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