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This is a list of estimated global populations of Marsupials species. This list is not comprehensive, as not all Marsupials have had their numbers quantified.
| Common name | Scientific name | IUCN Red List status | Trend | Global population estimate (year) | Population notes | Range | Image |
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| Common wombat | Vombatus ursinus | LC IUCN | 
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>915,090 (2020)[1] | Only includes subpopulations from three islands (Maria, Flinders, and Tasmania) of two subspecies (V. u. ursinus and V. u. tasmaniensis). Mainland subspecies (V. u. hirsutus) numbers are not known. | 
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| Southern hairy-nosed wombat | Lasiorhinus latifrons | NT IUCN | 
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1,300,000 (2016)[2][3] | 
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| Northern hairy-nosed wombat | Lasiorhinus krefftii | CR IUCN |
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315 (2021)[4] | 
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| Koala | Phascolarctos cinereus | VU IUCN |
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100,000–500,000[citation needed] | 
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| Eastern grey kangaroo | Macropus giganteus | LC IUCN |
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>12,977,181 (2021)[5] | Population estimate is only for the areas within Australia where commercial harvesting occur. The actual national populations would be significantly higher. | 
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| Western grey kangaroo | Macropus fuliginosus | LC IUCN | 
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>2,571,158 (2021)[5] | Population estimate is only for the areas within Australia where commercial harvesting occur. The actual national populations would be significantly higher. | 
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| Red kangaroo | Osphranter rufus | LC IUCN |
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>10,848,470 (2021)[5] | Population estimate is only for the areas within Australia where commercial harvesting occur. The actual national populations would be significantly higher. | 
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| Wallaroo, euro | Osphranter robustus | LC IUCN |
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>2,338,076 (2021)[5] | Population estimate is only for the areas within Australia where commercial harvesting occur. The actual national populations would be significantly higher. | 
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| Antilopine kangaroo | Osphranter antilopinus | LC IUCN | [citation needed]
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[data missing] | 
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| Tasmanian devil | Sarcophilus harrisii | EN IUCN |
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140,000[citation needed] | 
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| Thylacine | Thylacinus cynocephalus | EX IUCN | 0 (1936)[6] | Last known individual died on 7 September, 1936. | 
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| Brown-eared woolly opossum | Caluromys lanatus | LC IUCN |
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160,000,000 (2019)[7] | 
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| Brown four-eyed opossum | Metachirus nudicaudatus | LC IUCN |
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128,000,000 (2019)[7] | 
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| Gray four-eyed opossum | Philander opossum | LC IUCN |
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121,000,000 (2019)[7] | 
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| Linnaeus's mouse opossum | Marmosa murina | LC IUCN |
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104,000,000 (2019)[7] | 
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See also
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References
edit- ^ Knoblauch, Wiebke; Carver, Scott; Driessen, Michael M.; Gales, Rosemary; Richards, Shane A. (4 September 2023). "Abundance and population growth estimates for bare-nosed wombats". Ecology and Evolution. 13 (9): e10465. Bibcode:2023EcoEv..1310465K. doi:10.1002/ece3.10465. PMC 10477484. PMID 37674647.
- ^ Swinbourne, Michael (November 2018). "Chapter 8: The species-wide distribution and abundance of southern hairy-nosed wombats (Lasiorhinus latifrons)". Southern hairy-nosed wombats: when, where, how many, and why (PhD thesis). University of Adelaide, School of Biological Sciences (published 2019). hdl:2440/120414. Retrieved 2024-02-27.
- ^ Swinbourne, Michael; Taggart, David; Ostendorf, Bertram (2021). "The population status of southern hairy-nosed wombats (Lasiorhinus latifrons). I. Distribution and abundance". Australian Mammalogy. 43 (1). CSIRO Publishing: 6. doi:10.1071/AM20016. hdl:2440/127470. ISSN 0310-0049. S2CID 225375892. Retrieved 2024-02-27. pp. 5–6:
Therefore, the population numbers provided in this study should only be considered to be applicable at the time of the study (2016) and not for other times.
- ^ Lamond, Belle (2019-02-28). "Northern hairy-nosed wombat". Australian Wildlife Conservancy. Retrieved 2024-02-04.
- ^ a b c d DCCEEW (2022). "Macropod quotas and harvest statistics for NSW, QLD, SA and WA commercial harvest areas" (PDF). p. 1. Retrieved 2024-03-03.
- ^ "Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery | Thylacine mystery solved in TMAG collections". Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery. Department of State Growth. 5 December 2022. Retrieved 2024-02-04.
- ^ a b c d Greenspoon, Lior; Krieger, Eyal; Sender, Ron; Rosenberg, Yuval; Bar-On, Yinon M.; Moran, Uri; Antman, Tomer; Meiri, Shai; Roll, Uri; Noor, Elad; Milo, Ron (February 27, 2023). Marquet, Pablo (ed.). "The global biomass of wild mammals". PNAS. 120 (10): e2204892120. Bibcode:2023PNAS..12004892G. doi:10.1073/pnas.2204892120. PMC 10013851. PMID 36848563. Retrieved 2024-02-27.