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    • Common Bent-wing Bat
    • Common Brushtail Possum
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    • Humpback Whale
    • House Mouse
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    • Southern Brown Bandicoot
    • Southern Right Whale
    • Spotted-tailed Quoll
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    • Water-rat
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    • Australonycteris clarkae
    • Brachipposideros nooraleebus
    • Chunia illuminata
    • Diprotodon optatum
    • Euryzygoma dunense
    • Nimbacinus dicksoni
    • Nimiokoala greystanesi
    • Obdurodon dicksoni
    • Pseudomys vandycki
    • Steropodon galmani
    • Yarala burchfieldi
    • Thylacinus potens
    • Thylacoleo carnifex
    • Wakaleo vanderleuri
    • The Thylacine
    • Megafauna extinction theories - patterns of extinction
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    • Andrews' Beaked Whale
    • Arnoux's Beaked Whale
    • Australian Sea Lion
    • Blainville's Beaked Whale
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    • Cuvier's Beaked Whale
    • Dugong
    • False Killer Whale
    • Ginkgo-toothed Beaked Whale
    • Gray's Beaked Whale
    • Hector's Beaked Whale
    • Killer Whale
    • Leopard Seal
    • Longman's Beaked Whale
    • Minke Whale
    • Pygmy Sperm Whale
    • Shepherd's Beaked Whale
    • Short-finned Pilot Whale
    • Southern Bottlenose Whale
    • Sperm Whale
    • Strap-toothed Whale
    • Striped Dolphin
    • True's Beaked Whale
  • Mammals in the Australian Museum Collections
    • Australian Museum Mammalogy Collection
    • Monkey faced bat from the Solomon Islands
    • Mountain Brushtail Possum
    • Tree Kangaroo from New Guinea
    • Whale Graveyard
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Image Gallery: Which one is a Black Rat?

Compare the photos of some small Australian native and introduced mammals. Links are provided to fact sheets on each animal, explaining how to identify them.

Black Rat

Bush Rat

Common Brushtail Possum

Common Ringtail Possum

House Mouse

Northern Brown Antechinus

Common Water-rat