Fauna of Australia

The present fauna of Australia is on by the large number of species that naturally nowhere else and by the relatively large role that marsupials play there.



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[hide] *Arise 1  ==Genesis[ Edit] == One of the main causes of the unique character of the Australian animals is the prolonged isolation of the content. About 50 million years ago divided the current Australia away from the supercontinent Gondwana and started to head north themselves move. Only about 5 million years ago the Australian plate collided with Asia. The marsupials have spread from, for example, probably only one or a few basic forms in all sorts of shapes developed. (See adaptive radiation.)
 * 2 Climate and landscape
 * 3 mammals
 * 3.1 non-marine mammals
 * 3.2 marine mammals
 * 4 Birds
 * 5 amphibians and reptiles
 * 6 Fish
 * 6.1 fresh water
 * 6.2 salt water
 * 7 Invertebrates
 * 7.1 Land
 * 7.2 Water

A second important factor was the emergence of the Circumpolar Current (around Antarctica) about 15 million years ago. Australia was a relatively dry continent, which led to the creation of many on the drought custom animal species. ==Climate and landscape[ Edit] == The continent consists largely of desert. Only in the North and on the southern island of Tasmania there are rainforests, which further South are often more subtropical than tropical. In the Southeast is a more temperate climate.

In the Interior there is besides deserts also steppeand Savannah-like areas. For example, the kangaroos live there. ==Mammals[ Edit] == ===Non-marine mammals<span class="mw-editsection" len="353" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === Kangaroo<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The oldest known mammals are, excluding the marine mammals, the monotremes, which prevent since the Early Cretaceous period . In the Eocene Epoch came there marsupialsand mammals, but the latter disappeared again until much later, around 15 million years ago, bats and rodents appeared. From about 5000 years ago introduced the first man various mammals, the dingo. ===Marine Mammals<span class="mw-editsection" len="348" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In the waters around Australia come dozens of marine mammal species, including species such as the humpbackwhale. Most of these species can be found elsewhere in the world. ==Birds<span class="mw-editsection" len="341" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p lang="en" len="533" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Australia has about 800 bird species, from large to smaller as the EMU as the Satin Blue gazebo bird, the male of which as part of the mating ritual very complicated gazebos builds.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">There are also large fowl leg in Australia which hatch their eggs in heaps of rotting plant material and check the temperature thereof (thermometer birds). Once the chicks are born, they leave that to their fate. ==Amphibians and reptiles<span class="mw-editsection" len="357" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == Calling male of the species Litoria chloris .Spotted blue-tongued lizard (Tiliqua nigrolutea) sticks his tongue out.<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In Australia come 230 kinds of amphibians, which all belong to the frogs (Anura).<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-AMNH_1-0" len="185" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [1]  the other two groups of amphibians, the salamanders (Caudata) and the gymnophiona(Apoda), are not represented on the continent. Due to the isolated location of Australia is there. Some common groups of frogs which are characteristic of Australia are the tree frogs of the genus Litoria, which can be fairly robust. Austrochaperina sex is even named after the country because the representatives come here for. Australia has four nativefrog families. In 1935, the Philippines (Rhinella marina) expelled for a beetle scourge, but this ran out on a still-long environmental disaster.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The reptiles are represented by all groups; in Australia come snakes, lizards, turtles and crocodilians for. The country is also known for its freshwater and saltwater crocodiles, the largest of which, the saltwater crocodile, seven feet long and can be dangerous for people.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">There are over 210 species of snakes In Australia for. Of all snakes worldwide is about 15% toxic, but most snakes that occur in Australia are poisonous so that the percentage of poisonous snakes in Australia is much higher. One of the most dangerous species is the Brown Snake, this species is common and is unobtrusive, creating many incidents take place at which one accidentally stand on the hose. In addition to poisonous snakes are also non-toxic species such as some types of worm snakes. Some groups of snakes have an Australian origin, such as the strangler snakes of the genus Morelia .

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Of the six types of sea turtles (Cheloniidae) there are five for along the coast. The sea turtles searching not only for food but also put their eggs on the Australian beaches. Among other things the hawksbill turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata), the green turtle (Chelonia mydas) and the leatherback turtle (Dermochelys coriacea) put their eggs here. In the Interior are about 25 species of freshwater turtles for, among other things, from the genera Elseya Chelodina and Myuchelys.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-REPDATTEST_2-0" len="191" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [2]  in particular the species from the genus Chelodina are famous for its long neck.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Finally, France the country many kinds of lizardssuch as geckos. A number of groups has unique features, such as the Blue tongue skinks (Tiliqua) that have a cobalt blue tongue and the collar lizard (Chlamydosaurus kingii) who possesses a striking skin flap around the neck. The mountain Devil or moloch (Moloch horridus) is a highly specialised lizard belonging to the family Agamas belongs with only ants live. ==Fish<span class="mw-editsection" len="341" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p lang="en" len="297" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">It's fairly dry continent has relatively little fresh water and the majority of the species is therefore to find in the sea. ===Fresh water<span class="mw-editsection" len="345" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">To the evolutionary seen oldest kinds of Australian Lungfishbelongs, which already existed before the split off from Gondwanaland.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Remarkable is the Lepidogalaxias, which can survive dry periods by digging in the mud. (See aestivatie.)

<p lang="en" len="125" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The introduction of carp and salmon species by man has had a negative effect on local flora and fauna. ===Salt water<span class="mw-editsection" len="346" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In the sea around Australia for many shark species, such as the Port jackson bullhead shark and Ken. The only three to man dangerous species are the white shark, the Bull shark and the tiger shark. Shark nets along beaches fall despite measures if there sometimes fatalities.

<p lang="en" len="701" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The great barrier reef is home to a huge variety of fish species, including the one-metre long giant grouper and the stonefish, the most poisonous fish in the world. ==Invertebrates<span class="mw-editsection" len="349" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===Country<span class="mw-editsection" len="340" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p lang="en" len="495" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Most invertebrate animal species are insects, including introduced species like the Fire Ant, which is heavily contested since 2001.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">To the dangerous species to humans include the Sydney funnel-Web Spider. ===Water<span class="mw-editsection" len="341" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === The latest dangerousAustralian zeewesp<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In Australian waters are invertebrates like squids and coral, Starfish well represented. In the colder South are less known species such as the crab Pseudocarcinus gigas, which can be found around Tasmania .

<p lang="en" len="455" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The Blue-ringed octopus Australian zeewesp and regularly make fatalities.