zooboy28
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This is a list of the native mammals kept in Australian Zoos, the counterpart to this thread - Exotic Mammals in Australian Zoos
Please comment with species missing (likely to be relatively few) or holdings that don't seem right (likely to be relatively many), and I will update the list.
Because many species are very commonly kept, and it is not feasible to list all the collections they are found in, I have categorised species based on the number of zoos holding them:
Species Holdings:
1-5 Collections – Rare (all holdings listed).
5-10 Collections – Uncommon
10-20 Collections – Common
20+ Collections – Very Common
Monotremata:
Tachyglossidae:
-Short-beaked Echidna Tachyglossus aculeatus
Very Common
Ornithorhynchidae:
-Platypus Ornithorhynchus anatinus
Uncommon - Australian Reptile Park, David Fleay Wildlife Park, Healesville Sanctuary, Lone Pine Koala Park, Melbourne Zoo, Platypus House, Taronga Zoo, Taronga Western Plains Zoo, Walkabout Creek Discovery Centre, Wildlife Sydney
Marsupialia:
Dasyuromorphia
Myrmecobiidae:
-Numbat Myrmecobius fasciatus
Rare - Perth Zoo. Currently (June 2024) one also at the Alice Springs Desert Park. Previously Australian Reptile Park, Healesville Sanctuary, and Wild Life Sydney have also held retired females from Perth Zoo.
Dasyuridae:
-Chuditch (Western Quoll) Dasyurus geoffroii
Rare – Alice Springs Desert Park, Perth Zoo (still?), Taronga Western Plains Zoo, Taronga Zoo
-Northern Quoll Dasyurus hallucatus
Rare - Daintree Wild Zoo (still?), Perth Zoo, Territory Wildlife Park
-Spot-tailed (Tiger) Quoll Dasyurus maculatus
Common
-Eastern Quoll Dasyurus viverrinus
Common
-Dibbler Parantechinus apicalis
Rare – Perth Zoo
-Common Planigale Planigale maculata
Rare – Territory Wildlife Park (still present Nov 2022)
-Red-tailed Phascogale Phascogale calura
Uncommon - Adelaide Zoo, Alice Springs Desert Park, Halls Gap Zoo, Perth Zoo, Sydney Zoo, Taronga Zoo (still?), Territory Wildlife Park
-Tasmanian Devil Sarcophilus harrisii
Very Common
-Fat-tailed Dunnart Sminthopsis crassicaudata
Uncommon
-Julia Creek Dunnart Sminthopsis douglasi
Rare - Julia Creek Information Centre (?)
-Stripe-faced Dunnart Sminthopsis macroura
Rare – Territory Wildlife Park (as of mid-2025). Formerly at Alice Springs Desert Park (until 2017)
-Brush-tailed Mulgara Dasycercus blythi
Rare - Adelaide Zoo, Alice Springs Desert Park
Peramelemorphia
Peramelidae:
-Golden Bandicoot Isoodon auratus
Rare – Alice Springs Desert Park, Territory Wildlife Park
-Northern Brown Bandicoot Isoodon macrourus
Uncommon – Byron Bay Wildlife Sanctuary, Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary, Kuranda Koala Gardens, Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary, Territory Wildlife Park, Wildlife Habitat, Wildlife Sydney, Yarra Valley Nocturnal Zoo
-Southern Brown Bandicoot Isoodon obesulus
Rare – Adelaide Zoo, Caversham Wildlife Park, Cleland Wildlife Park, East Coast Natureworld, Perth Zoo, Softfoot Sanctuary
(Note that this species has been split into two species, eastern obesulus and western fusciventer, and the zoos generally do not specify which are held. Generally western zoos (e.g. Caversham, Perth) would hold the western species while eastern zoos (e.g. Cleland) would hold the eastern species).
-Greater Bilby Macrotis lagotis
Very Common
-Eastern Barred Bandicoot Perameles gunnii
Rare – Trowunna Wildlife Sanctuary, Wings Wildlife Park. [No longer at Healesville Sanctuary, Melbourne Zoo, or Werribee Open Range Zoo ?]
-Long-nosed Bandicoot Perameles nasuta
Rare – Australian Walkabout Wildlife Park, Taronga Zoo (still?)
[Note: this species has now been split into two species, Northern pallescens and Southern nasuta - captive animals are the Southern species I think]
Diprotodontia
Phascolarctidae:
-Koala Phascolarctos cinereus
Very Common
Vombatidae:
-Southern Hairy-nosed Wombat Lasiorhinus latifrons
Very Common
-Common Wombat Vombatus ursinus
Very Common
Potoroidae:
-Rufous Bettong Aepyprymnus rufescens
Common
-Eastern Bettong Bettongia gaimardi
Rare – Bonorong Wildlife Sanctuary, Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve, Trowunna Wildlife Park, Wings Wildlife Park
-Burrowing Bettong Bettongia lesueur
Rare – Alice Springs Desert Park
-Brush-tailed Bettong Bettongia penicillata
Uncommon
-Northern Bettong Bettongia tropica
Rare - Kuranda Koala Gardens, Wildlife Habitat
-Long-nosed Potoroo Potorous tridactylus
Common
Macropodidae:
-Lumholtz's Tree Kangaroo Dendrolagus lumholtzi
Common – Australian Reptile Park, Billabong Sanctuary, Billabong Zoo, Currumbin Sanctuary, David Fleay Wildlife Park, Dreamworld, Oakvale Wildlife Park, Rainforestation Nature Park, Snakes Downunder, Walkabout Creek Discovery Centre, Wildlife Habitat, Wildlife HQ.
-Spectacled Hare-wallaby Lagorchestes conspicillatus
Rare – Territory Wildlife Park
-Mala Lagorchestes hirsutus
Rare – Alice Springs Desert Park
-Agile Wallaby Macropus agilis
Common
-Antilopine Wallaroo Macropus antilopinus
Rare – Crocodylus Park, Territory Wildlife Park
-Black Wallaroo Macropus bernardus
Rare – Territory Wildlife Park (still present Nov 2022)
-Black-striped Wallaby Macropus dorsalis
Rare – Phillip Island Wildlife Park
-Tammar Wallaby Macropus eugenii
Common
-Western Grey Kangaroo Macropus fuliginosus
Very Common
-Eastern Grey Kangaroo Macropus giganteus
Very Common
-Western Brush Wallaby Macropus irma
Rare – Bunbury Wildlife Park, Perth Zoo
-Parma Wallaby Macropus parma
Common
-Whiptail Wallaby Macropus parryi
Rare – Darling Downs Zoo; previously also Walkabout Creek Discovery Centre
-Common Wallaroo Macropus robustus
Common
-Red-necked Wallaby Macropus rufogriseus
Very Common
-Red Kangaroo Macropus rufus
Very Common
-Bridled Nailtail Wallaby Onychogalea fraenata
Rare – David Fleay Wildlife Park
-Northern Nailtail Wallaby Onychogalea unguifera
Rare – Wildlife Habitat
-Nabarlek Petrogale concinna
Rare – one at Territory Wildlife Park
-Black-footed Rock Wallaby Petrogale lateralis
Rare – Australia Zoo, Monarto Zoo
-Unadorned Rock Wallaby Petrogale inornata
Rare – Warrawong Wildlife Sanctuary
-Brush-tailed Rock Wallaby Petrogale penicillata
Uncommon
-Proserpine Rock Wallaby Petrogale persephone
Rare – two pairs at David Fleay Wildlife Park
-Yellow-footed Rock Wallaby Petrogale xanthopus
Uncommon
-Quokka Setonix brachyurus
Common
-Tasmanian Pademelon Thylogale billardierei
Common
-Red-legged Pademelon Thylogale stigmatica
Uncommon
-Red-necked Pademelon Thylogale thetis
Uncommon
-Swamp Wallaby Wallabia bicolor
Very Common
Burramyidae:
-Mountain Pygmy Possum Burramys parvus
Rare – Australian Reptile Park, Gumbuya Park, Healesville Sanctuary
-Eastern Pygmy Possum Cercartetus nanus
Rare – Australia Walkabout Wildlife Park (displayed on night tours), Trowunna Wildlife Park (off-display)
Pseudocheiridae:
-Greater Glider Petauroides volans
Rare – Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary, Taronga Zoo (still?); [apparently no longer kept at David Fleay Wildlife Park]
-Western Ringtail Possum Pseudocheirus occidentalis
Rare - Caversham Wildlife Park, Peel Zoo, Perth Zoo
-Common Ringtail Possum Pseudocheirus peregrinus
Common
Petauridae:
-Striped Possum Dactylopsila trivirgata
Rare – Walkabout Creek Discovery Centre. [No longer held at Wildlife Habitat (Port Douglas) as of a July 2022 report]
-Leadbeater's Possum Gymnobelideus leadbeateri
Rare – Healesville Sanctuary
-Yellow-bellied Glider Petaurus australis
Uncommon
-Sugar Glider Petaurus breviceps
Common
[Note on Sugar Gliders: a 2020 paper split the Australian populations into three species - ariel, breviceps, and notatus - of which captive populations would be composed of the latter two. The abstract is here: Integrative taxonomic investigation of Petaurus breviceps (Marsupialia: Petauridae) reveals three distinct species]
-Mahogany Glider Petaurus gracilis
Rare – Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary (still?), Dreamworld, Kuranda Koala Gardens, Wildlife Habitat
-Squirrel Glider Petaurus norfolcensis
Common
Acrobatidae:
-Feathertail Glider Acrobates pygmaeus
Uncommon
[Note: now split into two species, the Narrow-toed Feathertail Glider A. pygmaeus and the Broad-toed Feathertail Glider A. frontalis. I don't know what the composition of the captive population is.]
Phalangeridae:
-Short-eared Brushtail Possum Trichosurus caninus
Rare – Currumbin Sanctuary, David Fleay Wildlife Park, Wildlife HQ, Macadamia Castle [only on proper display at the last-named collection]
-Common Brushtail Possum Trichosurus vulpecula
Very Common
-Northern Brushtail Possum Trichosurus arnhemensis
Rare – Territory Wildlife Park
Placentalia
Chiroptera
Pteropodidae:
-Black Flying Fox Pteropus alecto gouldii
Rare – Caversham Wildlife Park, Halls Gap Zoo, Phillip Island Wildlife Park, Territory Wildlife Park
-Spectacled Flying Fox Pteropus conspicillatus
Rare – Amazement Farm and Fun Park, Caversham Wildlife Park, Featherdale Wildlife Park, Hunter Valley Zoo, Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary, Wildlife Habitat
-Grey-headed Flying Fox Pteropus poliocephalus
Uncommon
-Little Red Flying Fox Pteropus scapulatus
Rare – Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary
Megadermatidae:
-Ghost Bat Macroderma gigas
Uncommon - Adelaide Zoo, Alice Springs Desert Park, Currumbin Sanctuary, Featherdale, Gorge Wildlife Park, Perth Zoo, Sydney Zoo, Taronga Zoo, Territory Wildlife Park, Wildlife Sydney.
Carnivora
Canidae:
-Dingo Canis lupus dingo
Very Common
Otariidae:
-New Zealand Fur Seal Arctocephalus forsteri
Rare – Sea World Gold Coast, Melbourne Zoo, Taronga Zoo, Underwater World (Mooloolaba)
-Australian Fur Seal Arctocephalus pusillus doriferus
Rare – Melbourne Zoo
-Subantarctic Fur Seal Arctocephalus tropicalis
Rare – Sea World Gold Coast, Taronga Zoo (still?), Underwater World (Mooloolaba)
-Australian Sealion Neophoca cinerea
Rare – Pet Porpoise Pool (Dolphin Marine Magic), Sea World Gold Coast, Taronga Zoo,
Cetacea
Delphinidae:
-Common Bottle-nosed Dolphin Tursiops truncatus
Rare – Sea World Gold Coast
-Indo-Pacific Bottle-nosed Dolphin Tursiops aduncus
Rare – Pet Porpoise Pool (Dolphin Marine Magic), Sea World Gold Coast
Sirenia
Dugongidae:
-Dugong Dugong dugon
Rare – one male at SEA LIFE Sydney Aquarium (the female of the pair died in May 2018)
Rodentia
Muridae:
-Australian Water Rat Hydromys chrysogaster
Rare – Perth Zoo, Territory Wildlife Park, Wings Wildlife Park
-Greater Stick-nest Rat Leporillus conditor
Rare – Adelaide Zoo, Alice Springs Desert Park, Cleland Wildlife Park, Monarto Zoo, Taronga Zoo (still?)
-Broad-toothed Mouse Mastacomys fuscus
Rare – Aussie Ark
-Grassland Melomys Melomys burtoni
Rare – Territory Wildlife Park
-Black-footed Tree Rat Mesembriomys gouldii gouldii
Rare – Adelaide Zoo, David Fleay Wildlife Park (still?), Perth Zoo, Sydney Zoo, Territory Wildlife Park
-Spinifex Hopping Mouse Notomys alexis
Common
-Mitchell's Hopping Mouse Notomys mitchellii
Rare – Kyabram Fauna Park, Maru Koala and Animal Park, Melbourne Museum (off-display), Monarto Zoo (on display?)
-Plains Rat Pseudomys australis
Uncommon – Alice Springs Desert Park, Halls Gap Zoo, Mogo Zoo, Monarto Zoo (on display?), Taronga Zoo (still?), Wildlife Sydney
-New Holland Mouse Pseudomys novaehollandiae
Rare – Melbourne Zoo, Moonlit Sanctuary
-Smoky Mouse Pseudomys fumeus
Rare – Healesville Sanctuary
-Central Rock Rat Zyzomys pedunculatus
Rare – Alice Springs Desert Park
Species removed from the listings since 2014:
-Kultarr Antechinomys laniger
Alice Springs Desert Park
-Crest-tailed Mulgara Dasycercus cristicauda
Perth Zoo (2016?)
-Sandhill Dunnart Sminthopsis psammophila
Alice Springs Desert Park
-Long-footed Potoroo Potorous longipes
Healesville Sanctuary (single animal, arrived and died in 2022)
-Short-eared Rock Wallaby Petrogale brachyotis
Perth Zoo (the individual was originally misidentified as a Nabarlek P. concinna)
-Wilkin's Rock Wallaby Petrogale wilkinsi
Territory Wildlife Park (2019)
-Western Pygmy Possum Cercartetus concinnus
Cleland Wildlife Park (2020 or 2021)
-Rock Ringtail Possum Petropseudes dahli
Territory Wildlife Park (2017)
-Northern Blossom Bat Macroglossus minimus
Territory Wildlife Park (2018)
-Bare-rumped Sheath-tail Bat Saccolaimus saccolaimus
Territory Wildlife Park (2018)
-Leopard Seal Hydrurga leptonyx
Taronga Zoo (2014)
-Australian Hump-backed Dolphin Sousa sahulensis
Sea World Gold Coast (2019)
-Brush-tailed Tree Rat Conilurus penicillatus
Halls Gap Zoo
-Fawn-footed Melomys Melomys cervinipes
Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary (2016?)
-Bush Rat Rattus fuscipes
Taronga Zoo
-Long-haired Rat Rattus villosissimus
Walkabout Creek Discovery Centre (2017?)
-Carpentarian Rock Rat Zyzomys palatilis
Territory Wildlife Park
Species gained since 2014:
-Common Planigale Planigale maculata
Territory Wildlife Park
-Julia Creek Dunnart Sminthopsis douglasi
Julia Creek Information Centre (?) (formerly also at David Fleay's until c.2016)
-Brush-tailed Mulgara Dasycercus blythi
Alice Springs Desert Park
-Unadorned Rock Wallaby Petrogale inornata
Warrawong Wildlife Sanctuary
-Broad-toothed Mouse Mastacomys fuscus
Aussie Ark
-Mitchell's Hopping Mouse Notomys mitchellii
Melbourne Museum (albeit off-display), and later Kyabram Fauna Park and Monarto Zoo
-New Holland Mouse Pseudomys novaehollandiae
Melbourne Zoo, Moonlit Sanctuary
-Smoky Mouse Pseudomys fumeus
Healesville Sanctuary
-Central Rock Rat Zyzomys pedunculatus
Alice Springs Desert Park
Please comment with species missing (likely to be relatively few) or holdings that don't seem right (likely to be relatively many), and I will update the list.
Because many species are very commonly kept, and it is not feasible to list all the collections they are found in, I have categorised species based on the number of zoos holding them:
Species Holdings:
1-5 Collections – Rare (all holdings listed).
5-10 Collections – Uncommon
10-20 Collections – Common
20+ Collections – Very Common
Monotremata:
Tachyglossidae:
-Short-beaked Echidna Tachyglossus aculeatus
Very Common
Ornithorhynchidae:
-Platypus Ornithorhynchus anatinus
Uncommon - Australian Reptile Park, David Fleay Wildlife Park, Healesville Sanctuary, Lone Pine Koala Park, Melbourne Zoo, Platypus House, Taronga Zoo, Taronga Western Plains Zoo, Walkabout Creek Discovery Centre, Wildlife Sydney
Marsupialia:
Dasyuromorphia
Myrmecobiidae:
-Numbat Myrmecobius fasciatus
Rare - Perth Zoo. Currently (June 2024) one also at the Alice Springs Desert Park. Previously Australian Reptile Park, Healesville Sanctuary, and Wild Life Sydney have also held retired females from Perth Zoo.
Dasyuridae:
-Chuditch (Western Quoll) Dasyurus geoffroii
Rare – Alice Springs Desert Park, Perth Zoo (still?), Taronga Western Plains Zoo, Taronga Zoo
-Northern Quoll Dasyurus hallucatus
Rare - Daintree Wild Zoo (still?), Perth Zoo, Territory Wildlife Park
-Spot-tailed (Tiger) Quoll Dasyurus maculatus
Common
-Eastern Quoll Dasyurus viverrinus
Common
-Dibbler Parantechinus apicalis
Rare – Perth Zoo
-Common Planigale Planigale maculata
Rare – Territory Wildlife Park (still present Nov 2022)
-Red-tailed Phascogale Phascogale calura
Uncommon - Adelaide Zoo, Alice Springs Desert Park, Halls Gap Zoo, Perth Zoo, Sydney Zoo, Taronga Zoo (still?), Territory Wildlife Park
-Tasmanian Devil Sarcophilus harrisii
Very Common
-Fat-tailed Dunnart Sminthopsis crassicaudata
Uncommon
-Julia Creek Dunnart Sminthopsis douglasi
Rare - Julia Creek Information Centre (?)
-Stripe-faced Dunnart Sminthopsis macroura
Rare – Territory Wildlife Park (as of mid-2025). Formerly at Alice Springs Desert Park (until 2017)
-Brush-tailed Mulgara Dasycercus blythi
Rare - Adelaide Zoo, Alice Springs Desert Park
Peramelemorphia
Peramelidae:
-Golden Bandicoot Isoodon auratus
Rare – Alice Springs Desert Park, Territory Wildlife Park
-Northern Brown Bandicoot Isoodon macrourus
Uncommon – Byron Bay Wildlife Sanctuary, Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary, Kuranda Koala Gardens, Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary, Territory Wildlife Park, Wildlife Habitat, Wildlife Sydney, Yarra Valley Nocturnal Zoo
-Southern Brown Bandicoot Isoodon obesulus
Rare – Adelaide Zoo, Caversham Wildlife Park, Cleland Wildlife Park, East Coast Natureworld, Perth Zoo, Softfoot Sanctuary
(Note that this species has been split into two species, eastern obesulus and western fusciventer, and the zoos generally do not specify which are held. Generally western zoos (e.g. Caversham, Perth) would hold the western species while eastern zoos (e.g. Cleland) would hold the eastern species).
-Greater Bilby Macrotis lagotis
Very Common
-Eastern Barred Bandicoot Perameles gunnii
Rare – Trowunna Wildlife Sanctuary, Wings Wildlife Park. [No longer at Healesville Sanctuary, Melbourne Zoo, or Werribee Open Range Zoo ?]
-Long-nosed Bandicoot Perameles nasuta
Rare – Australian Walkabout Wildlife Park, Taronga Zoo (still?)
[Note: this species has now been split into two species, Northern pallescens and Southern nasuta - captive animals are the Southern species I think]
Diprotodontia
Phascolarctidae:
-Koala Phascolarctos cinereus
Very Common
Vombatidae:
-Southern Hairy-nosed Wombat Lasiorhinus latifrons
Very Common
-Common Wombat Vombatus ursinus
Very Common
Potoroidae:
-Rufous Bettong Aepyprymnus rufescens
Common
-Eastern Bettong Bettongia gaimardi
Rare – Bonorong Wildlife Sanctuary, Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve, Trowunna Wildlife Park, Wings Wildlife Park
-Burrowing Bettong Bettongia lesueur
Rare – Alice Springs Desert Park
-Brush-tailed Bettong Bettongia penicillata
Uncommon
-Northern Bettong Bettongia tropica
Rare - Kuranda Koala Gardens, Wildlife Habitat
-Long-nosed Potoroo Potorous tridactylus
Common
Macropodidae:
-Lumholtz's Tree Kangaroo Dendrolagus lumholtzi
Common – Australian Reptile Park, Billabong Sanctuary, Billabong Zoo, Currumbin Sanctuary, David Fleay Wildlife Park, Dreamworld, Oakvale Wildlife Park, Rainforestation Nature Park, Snakes Downunder, Walkabout Creek Discovery Centre, Wildlife Habitat, Wildlife HQ.
-Spectacled Hare-wallaby Lagorchestes conspicillatus
Rare – Territory Wildlife Park
-Mala Lagorchestes hirsutus
Rare – Alice Springs Desert Park
-Agile Wallaby Macropus agilis
Common
-Antilopine Wallaroo Macropus antilopinus
Rare – Crocodylus Park, Territory Wildlife Park
-Black Wallaroo Macropus bernardus
Rare – Territory Wildlife Park (still present Nov 2022)
-Black-striped Wallaby Macropus dorsalis
Rare – Phillip Island Wildlife Park
-Tammar Wallaby Macropus eugenii
Common
-Western Grey Kangaroo Macropus fuliginosus
Very Common
-Eastern Grey Kangaroo Macropus giganteus
Very Common
-Western Brush Wallaby Macropus irma
Rare – Bunbury Wildlife Park, Perth Zoo
-Parma Wallaby Macropus parma
Common
-Whiptail Wallaby Macropus parryi
Rare – Darling Downs Zoo; previously also Walkabout Creek Discovery Centre
-Common Wallaroo Macropus robustus
Common
-Red-necked Wallaby Macropus rufogriseus
Very Common
-Red Kangaroo Macropus rufus
Very Common
-Bridled Nailtail Wallaby Onychogalea fraenata
Rare – David Fleay Wildlife Park
-Northern Nailtail Wallaby Onychogalea unguifera
Rare – Wildlife Habitat
-Nabarlek Petrogale concinna
Rare – one at Territory Wildlife Park
-Black-footed Rock Wallaby Petrogale lateralis
Rare – Australia Zoo, Monarto Zoo
-Unadorned Rock Wallaby Petrogale inornata
Rare – Warrawong Wildlife Sanctuary
-Brush-tailed Rock Wallaby Petrogale penicillata
Uncommon
-Proserpine Rock Wallaby Petrogale persephone
Rare – two pairs at David Fleay Wildlife Park
-Yellow-footed Rock Wallaby Petrogale xanthopus
Uncommon
-Quokka Setonix brachyurus
Common
-Tasmanian Pademelon Thylogale billardierei
Common
-Red-legged Pademelon Thylogale stigmatica
Uncommon
-Red-necked Pademelon Thylogale thetis
Uncommon
-Swamp Wallaby Wallabia bicolor
Very Common
Burramyidae:
-Mountain Pygmy Possum Burramys parvus
Rare – Australian Reptile Park, Gumbuya Park, Healesville Sanctuary
-Eastern Pygmy Possum Cercartetus nanus
Rare – Australia Walkabout Wildlife Park (displayed on night tours), Trowunna Wildlife Park (off-display)
Pseudocheiridae:
-Greater Glider Petauroides volans
Rare – Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary, Taronga Zoo (still?); [apparently no longer kept at David Fleay Wildlife Park]
-Western Ringtail Possum Pseudocheirus occidentalis
Rare - Caversham Wildlife Park, Peel Zoo, Perth Zoo
-Common Ringtail Possum Pseudocheirus peregrinus
Common
Petauridae:
-Striped Possum Dactylopsila trivirgata
Rare – Walkabout Creek Discovery Centre. [No longer held at Wildlife Habitat (Port Douglas) as of a July 2022 report]
-Leadbeater's Possum Gymnobelideus leadbeateri
Rare – Healesville Sanctuary
-Yellow-bellied Glider Petaurus australis
Uncommon
-Sugar Glider Petaurus breviceps
Common
[Note on Sugar Gliders: a 2020 paper split the Australian populations into three species - ariel, breviceps, and notatus - of which captive populations would be composed of the latter two. The abstract is here: Integrative taxonomic investigation of Petaurus breviceps (Marsupialia: Petauridae) reveals three distinct species]
-Mahogany Glider Petaurus gracilis
Rare – Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary (still?), Dreamworld, Kuranda Koala Gardens, Wildlife Habitat
-Squirrel Glider Petaurus norfolcensis
Common
Acrobatidae:
-Feathertail Glider Acrobates pygmaeus
Uncommon
[Note: now split into two species, the Narrow-toed Feathertail Glider A. pygmaeus and the Broad-toed Feathertail Glider A. frontalis. I don't know what the composition of the captive population is.]
Phalangeridae:
-Short-eared Brushtail Possum Trichosurus caninus
Rare – Currumbin Sanctuary, David Fleay Wildlife Park, Wildlife HQ, Macadamia Castle [only on proper display at the last-named collection]
-Common Brushtail Possum Trichosurus vulpecula
Very Common
-Northern Brushtail Possum Trichosurus arnhemensis
Rare – Territory Wildlife Park
Placentalia
Chiroptera
Pteropodidae:
-Black Flying Fox Pteropus alecto gouldii
Rare – Caversham Wildlife Park, Halls Gap Zoo, Phillip Island Wildlife Park, Territory Wildlife Park
-Spectacled Flying Fox Pteropus conspicillatus
Rare – Amazement Farm and Fun Park, Caversham Wildlife Park, Featherdale Wildlife Park, Hunter Valley Zoo, Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary, Wildlife Habitat
-Grey-headed Flying Fox Pteropus poliocephalus
Uncommon
-Little Red Flying Fox Pteropus scapulatus
Rare – Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary
Megadermatidae:
-Ghost Bat Macroderma gigas
Uncommon - Adelaide Zoo, Alice Springs Desert Park, Currumbin Sanctuary, Featherdale, Gorge Wildlife Park, Perth Zoo, Sydney Zoo, Taronga Zoo, Territory Wildlife Park, Wildlife Sydney.
Carnivora
Canidae:
-Dingo Canis lupus dingo
Very Common
Otariidae:
-New Zealand Fur Seal Arctocephalus forsteri
Rare – Sea World Gold Coast, Melbourne Zoo, Taronga Zoo, Underwater World (Mooloolaba)
-Australian Fur Seal Arctocephalus pusillus doriferus
Rare – Melbourne Zoo
-Subantarctic Fur Seal Arctocephalus tropicalis
Rare – Sea World Gold Coast, Taronga Zoo (still?), Underwater World (Mooloolaba)
-Australian Sealion Neophoca cinerea
Rare – Pet Porpoise Pool (Dolphin Marine Magic), Sea World Gold Coast, Taronga Zoo,
Cetacea
Delphinidae:
-Common Bottle-nosed Dolphin Tursiops truncatus
Rare – Sea World Gold Coast
-Indo-Pacific Bottle-nosed Dolphin Tursiops aduncus
Rare – Pet Porpoise Pool (Dolphin Marine Magic), Sea World Gold Coast
Sirenia
Dugongidae:
-Dugong Dugong dugon
Rare – one male at SEA LIFE Sydney Aquarium (the female of the pair died in May 2018)
Rodentia
Muridae:
-Australian Water Rat Hydromys chrysogaster
Rare – Perth Zoo, Territory Wildlife Park, Wings Wildlife Park
-Greater Stick-nest Rat Leporillus conditor
Rare – Adelaide Zoo, Alice Springs Desert Park, Cleland Wildlife Park, Monarto Zoo, Taronga Zoo (still?)
-Broad-toothed Mouse Mastacomys fuscus
Rare – Aussie Ark
-Grassland Melomys Melomys burtoni
Rare – Territory Wildlife Park
-Black-footed Tree Rat Mesembriomys gouldii gouldii
Rare – Adelaide Zoo, David Fleay Wildlife Park (still?), Perth Zoo, Sydney Zoo, Territory Wildlife Park
-Spinifex Hopping Mouse Notomys alexis
Common
-Mitchell's Hopping Mouse Notomys mitchellii
Rare – Kyabram Fauna Park, Maru Koala and Animal Park, Melbourne Museum (off-display), Monarto Zoo (on display?)
-Plains Rat Pseudomys australis
Uncommon – Alice Springs Desert Park, Halls Gap Zoo, Mogo Zoo, Monarto Zoo (on display?), Taronga Zoo (still?), Wildlife Sydney
-New Holland Mouse Pseudomys novaehollandiae
Rare – Melbourne Zoo, Moonlit Sanctuary
-Smoky Mouse Pseudomys fumeus
Rare – Healesville Sanctuary
-Central Rock Rat Zyzomys pedunculatus
Rare – Alice Springs Desert Park
Species removed from the listings since 2014:
-Kultarr Antechinomys laniger
Alice Springs Desert Park
-Crest-tailed Mulgara Dasycercus cristicauda
Perth Zoo (2016?)
-Sandhill Dunnart Sminthopsis psammophila
Alice Springs Desert Park
-Long-footed Potoroo Potorous longipes
Healesville Sanctuary (single animal, arrived and died in 2022)
-Short-eared Rock Wallaby Petrogale brachyotis
Perth Zoo (the individual was originally misidentified as a Nabarlek P. concinna)
-Wilkin's Rock Wallaby Petrogale wilkinsi
Territory Wildlife Park (2019)
-Western Pygmy Possum Cercartetus concinnus
Cleland Wildlife Park (2020 or 2021)
-Rock Ringtail Possum Petropseudes dahli
Territory Wildlife Park (2017)
-Northern Blossom Bat Macroglossus minimus
Territory Wildlife Park (2018)
-Bare-rumped Sheath-tail Bat Saccolaimus saccolaimus
Territory Wildlife Park (2018)
-Leopard Seal Hydrurga leptonyx
Taronga Zoo (2014)
-Australian Hump-backed Dolphin Sousa sahulensis
Sea World Gold Coast (2019)
-Brush-tailed Tree Rat Conilurus penicillatus
Halls Gap Zoo
-Fawn-footed Melomys Melomys cervinipes
Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary (2016?)
-Bush Rat Rattus fuscipes
Taronga Zoo
-Long-haired Rat Rattus villosissimus
Walkabout Creek Discovery Centre (2017?)
-Carpentarian Rock Rat Zyzomys palatilis
Territory Wildlife Park
Species gained since 2014:
-Common Planigale Planigale maculata
Territory Wildlife Park
-Julia Creek Dunnart Sminthopsis douglasi
Julia Creek Information Centre (?) (formerly also at David Fleay's until c.2016)
-Brush-tailed Mulgara Dasycercus blythi
Alice Springs Desert Park
-Unadorned Rock Wallaby Petrogale inornata
Warrawong Wildlife Sanctuary
-Broad-toothed Mouse Mastacomys fuscus
Aussie Ark
-Mitchell's Hopping Mouse Notomys mitchellii
Melbourne Museum (albeit off-display), and later Kyabram Fauna Park and Monarto Zoo
-New Holland Mouse Pseudomys novaehollandiae
Melbourne Zoo, Moonlit Sanctuary
-Smoky Mouse Pseudomys fumeus
Healesville Sanctuary
-Central Rock Rat Zyzomys pedunculatus
Alice Springs Desert Park
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