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This is a list of mammals of South Australia. It includes all mammals recorded in South Australia since European settlement, including some known only from subfossil remains, and including non-feral introduced species.

Except where otherwise referenced, this list is based upon .

Subclass Prototheria

Order Monotremata

Family Ornithorhynchidae

Family Tachyglossidae

Subclass Marsupialia

Order Dasyuromorphia

Family Myrmecobiidae

Family Dasyuridae

Subfamily Dasyurinae
Subfamily Phascogalinae
Subfamily Planigalinae
Subfamily Sminthopsinae

Order Peramelemorphia

Family †Chaeropodidae

Family Peramelidae

Subfamily Peramelinae
Subfamily Thylacomyinae

Order Notoryctemorphia

Family Notoryctidae

Order Diprotodontia

Family Phascolarctidae

Family Vombatidae

Family Phalangeridae

Family Potoroidae

Family Macropodidae

Family Burramyidae

Family Pseudocheiridae

Family Petauridae

Acrobatidae

Subclass Eutheria

Order Chiroptera

Suborder Megachiroptera

Family Pteropodidae

Suborder Microchiroptera

Family Emballonuridae
Family Megadermatidae
Family Molossidae
Family Vespertilionidae
Subfamily Miniopterinae
  • Minipterus schreibersii (large bentwing-bat)
Subfamily Nytophilinae
Subfamily Vespertilioninae

Order Carnivora

Family Canidae

Family Otariidae

Subfamily Arctocephalinae
Subfamily Otariinae

Family Phocidae

Order Cetacea

Family Balaenidae

Family Neobalaenidae

  • Caperea marginata (pygmy right whale)

Family Balaenopteridae

Suborder Odontoceti

Family Delphinidae
Family Phocoenidae
  • Phocoena dioptrica (spectacled porpoise)
Family Physeteridae
Family Kogiidae
  • Kogia breviceps (pygmy sperm whale)
  • Kogia sima (dwarf sperm whale)
Family Ziphiidae
  • Berardius arnuxii (Arnoux's beaked whale)
  • Hyperoodon planifrons (southern bottlenose whale)
  • Mesoplodon bowdoini (Andrews beaked whale)
  • Mesoplodon grayi (Gray's beaked whale)
  • Mesoplodon hectori (Hector's beaked whale)
  • Mesoplodon layardii (strap-toothed whale)
  • Tasmacetus shepherdi (Shepherd's beaked whale)
  • Ziphius cavirostris (Cuvier's beaked whale)

Order Artiodactyla

Family Cervidae

  • Dama dama (common fallow deer) introduced

Order Rodentia

Family Muridae

Subfamily Hydromyinae
Subfamily Murinae

Order Lagomorpha

Family Leporidae

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