| Marsupial moles[1] Temporal range: Miocene to Recent
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| Southern marsupial mole | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
| Order: | Notoryctemorphia |
| Family: | Notoryctidae |
| Genus: | Notoryctes Stirling, 1891 |
| Type species | |
| Psammoryctes typhlops Stirling, 1889
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| Species | |
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Notoryctes typhlops Stirling, 1891 | |
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| Ranges of the two species | |
Marsupial moles, the Notoryctidae /noʊtəˈrɪktɪdiː/ family, are two species of highly specialized marsupial mammals that are found in the Australian interior.[2] They are small fossorial marsupials that anatomically converge on fossorial placental mammals, such as extant golden moles (Chrysochloridae) and extinct epoicotheres (Pholidota). The species are:
- Notoryctes typhlops (southern marsupial mole, known as the itjaritjari by the Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara people in Central Australia)[3]
- Notoryctes caurinus (northern marsupial mole, also known as the kakarratul)
- ^ Groves, C. P. (2005). Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 22. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. OCLC 62265494.
- ^ Warburton N. Functional morphology and evolution of marsupial moles (Marsupialia: Notoryctemorphia). 2003. PhD Dissertation, University of Western Australia.
- ^ "Mole Patrol". The Marsupial Society. 2004. Archived from the original on 2008-02-04. Retrieved 2006-11-09.