Endemic Animals of Victoria

These small, tree-dwelling marsupials are native and endemic exclusively to a very small area in Victoria (Australia). For about half a century, Leadbeater's possums were believed to be extinct, but in the beginning of 1960s the species was rediscovered. Less

Bernard's wolf, also known as the Banks Island wolf or the Banks Island tundra wolf, is an extinct subspecies of the gray wolf that was limited to Banks and Victoria Island of the Arctic Archipelago. Less

The eastern parotia is also known as Helena's parotia. Approximately 27 cm long, it is a medium-sized passerine of the bird-of-paradise family, Paradisaeidae. The eastern parotia is endemic to mountain forests of southeast Papua New Guinea. Less

Galbula hylochoreutes is an extinct species of jacamar, small birds of the order Piciformes. It was discovered in the La Victoria Formation of the Honda Group, at the Konzentrat-Lagerstätte of La Venta in modern Colombia, in deposits dated to the Laventan period . Less

Benthofascis otwayensis is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conorbidae. Less

Herpetopoma vixumbilicatum is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Chilodontidae. Less