Animals in Papua New Guinea

Animals in Papua New Guinea

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Dolphins, porpoises, and whales in Papua New Guinea

Blainville's beaked whale
Ginkgo-toothed beaked whale
Pygmy sperm whale
Irrawaddy dolphin
Fraser's dolphin
Killer whale
Melon-headed whale
Pygmy killer whale
Grey dolphin
Chinese white dolphin
Bridled dolphin
Long-beaked dolphin
Rough-toothed dolphin

Bats in Papua New Guinea

Island tube-nosed fruit bat
Moluccan naked-backed fruit bat
Black-bellied fruit bat
Umboi tube-nosed fruit bat
St. aignan's trumpet-eared bat
Fly river trumpet-eared bat
Gould's long-eared bat
Bismarck's trumpet-eared bat
Small-toothed long-eared bat
Arcuate horseshoe bat
Flower-faced bat
New guinea long-eared bat
Broad-eared horseshoe bat
Bulmer's fruit bat
Greater long-eared bat
Temminck's trident bat
Smaller horseshoe bat
Large-eared horseshoe bat
Western bent-winged bat
Northern mastiff bat
Big-eared mastiff bat
Geoffroy's rousette
Hoary wattled bat
Mantled mastiff bat
Yellow-bellied pouched bat
Great bent-winged bat
Greater sheath-tailed bat
Troughton's pouched bat
Beccari's mastiff bat
Raffray's sheath-tailed bat
Naked-rumped pouched bat
Southern free-tailed bat
Lesser long-tongued frut bat
Beccari's sheath-tailed bat
Dark sheath-tailed bat
Lesser tube-nosed fruit bat
Large-eared sheath-tailed bat
Flores tube-nosed bat
Bougainville monkey-faced bat
Dusky roundleaf bat
Admiralty flying-fox
Spurred roundleaf bat
Large-footed bat
Black flying fox
Telefomin roundleaf bat
Spectacled flying-fox
Fierce roundleaf bat
Whiskered myotis
Small flying-fox
Maggie taylor's roundleaf bat
Big-eared flying fox
Fly river roundleaf bat
Northern broad-nosed bat
Lesser flying-fox
Semon's roundleaf bat
Broad-striped tube-nosed fruit bat
Bismarck flying-fox
Wollaston's roundleaf bat
Round-eared tube-nosed fruit bat
Little red flying fox
Dragon tube-nosed fruit bat
New guinea big-eared bat
Moss-forest blossom bat
Demonic tube-nosed fruit bat
Insular flying-fox
Southern blossom bat
Common tube-nosed fruit bat
Lesser naked-backed fruit bat
Rohu's bat
White-striped free-tailed bat
Pallas's tube-nosed fruit bat
Panniet naked-backed fruit bat
Coastal tomb bat
Mountain tube-nosed fruit bat
New britain naked-backed fruit bat

Dasyuroid marsupials and marsupial carnivores in Papua New Guinea

Long-nosed antechinus
Lesser antechinus
New guinean planigale
Black-tailed antechinus
Red-cheeked dunnart
Chestnut dunnart
Short-furred dasyure
Broad-striped dasyure
Three-striped dasyure
New guinean quoll
Bronze quoll
Speckled dasyure
Narrow-striped dasyure

Kangaroos, possums, wallabies, and relatives in Papua New Guinea

Dusky pademelon
Black dorcopsis wallaby
Greater forest wallaby
Gray dorcopsis
Macleay's dorcopsis
Lesser forest wallaby
Long-tailed pygmy possum
Agile wallaby
D'albertis ringtail possum
Red-legged pademelon
Goldon ringtail possum
Coppery ringtail possum
Great-tailed triok
Fergusson island striped possum
Northern glider
Long-fingered triok
Sugar glider
Common spotted cuscus
Striped possum
Woodlark cuscus
Common phalanger
Black-spotted cuscus
Stein's cuscus
Doria's tree kangaroo
Telefomin cuscus
Goodfellow's tree kangaroo
Mountain cuscus
Grizzled tree kangaroo
Silky cuscus
Huon tree kangaroo
Scott's tree-kangaroo
Lowland tree kangaroo
Feathertail possum

Monotremes in Papua New Guinea

Long-beaked echidna
Short-beaked echidna

Bandicoots and bilbies in Papua New Guinea

Striped bandicoot
Papuan bandicoot
Clara bandicoot
Fly river bandicoot
Northern brown bandicoot
David's echymipera
Common echymipera
Long-nosed echymipera
Giant bandicoot
Raffray's bandicoot

Rodents in Papua New Guinea

Black-tailed mosaic-tailed rat
Squirrel-toothed rat
Western white-eared giant rat
Eastern rat
Eastern white-eared giant rat
New guinean rat
Spiny rat
Dusky field rat
Giant naked-tailed rat
Stein's rat
Lowland brush mouse
Giant white-tailed rat
Groove-toothed shrew mouse
Shaw mayer's brush mouse
Bismarck giant rat
Highland brush mouse
Mimic tree-rat
Champion's tree mouse
Large tree mouse
Chestnut tree mouse
Long-footed water rat
Gray-bellied tree mouse
Ernst mayr's water rat
Greater tree mouse
Fly river water rat
Coarse-haired water rat
Broad-headed tree mouse
New guinean jumping mouse
Northern water rat
Lesser tree mouse
Short-haired water rat
Brush-tailed rabbit rat
Eastern shrew mouse
Eastern small-toothed rat
Poncelet's giant rat
Earless water rat
Western shrew mouse
De vis's woolly rat
Bougainville naked-tailed rat
Little native mouse
Subalpine woolly rat
Isabel naked-tailed rat
Rothschild's woolly rat
Musser's shrew mouse
One-toothed shrew-mouse
Rümmler's brush mouse
Bougainville mosaic-tailed rat
Grassland mosaic-tailed rat
Red-bellied mosaic-tailed rat
Mottled-tailed shrew mouse
Slender mosaic-tailed rat
White-bellied mosaic-tailed rat
Moss-forest rat
Long-nosed mosaic-tailed rat
Van deusen's rat
Lorentz's mosaic-tailed rat
Golden-bellied water rat
Slender rat
Thomas's mosaic-tailed rat
Mountain water rat
Moncton's mosaic-tailed rat
Lowland mosaic-tailed rat
Western water rat
Giluwe rat
New britain water rat
Polynesian rat
Mountain mosaic-tailed rat
Shaw mayer's water rat
Cape york rat

Dugongs, manatees, and sea cows in Papua New Guinea

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