Necked lizard. Image via Matt from Melbourne, Australia, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons An Australian animal, the ...

The mammalian fauna of Australia is distinctive. Only on the continental island of Australia and the smaller island of New Guinea do representatives occur of all three extant major groups of mammals.

These figures include new records and newly described species for Australia for the past three years, among them approximately 1 184 vascular plants, 48 reptiles, 8 frogs and 8 mammals, 904 arachnids, ...