Talk:List of mammals of Australia

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List formats[edit]

The formats of the sublists need unifying. I suggest following the List of Australian birds format, vis:

- Generally two levels of headings at the Order and Family level, formatted as heading levels 2 and 4 (3 is a bit large for Family names). Add or substitute Class, Subclass, Suborder, Subfamily, Tribe etc only where they add something useful. No heading at genus level (redundant - the binomial covers it).
- Headings are the bare latin name, wikilinked - ie omit the redundant words "Order", "Family", etc (the standard latin forms already say it). Add clarifying group common names in parenthesis where warranted, but watch the resulting TOC width.
- {{TOCright}}, except if there is some format conflict
- A bullet for each species
- An indented bullet for each sub-species, where warranted
- Common name first (wikilinked), then scientific binomial (italics), then notes, all comma separated
- Wikilinking the scientific name is redundant and reduces readability (it loses the colour contrast), but it helps initially with finding typos and missing redirects

Thoughts? Glen Fergus 10:49, 4 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

See discussion at Talk:List of Australian monotremes and marsupials#Change_of_format--Gergyl (talk) 22:33, 8 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Why can't this be just one page? The list is not that long. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.221.204.140 (talk) 11:32, 29 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Missing Mammals[edit]

There seems to be at least one placental mammal missing from the list. As List of placental mammals introduced to Australia is post 1770, the would not seem to be appropriate for that sub list. Jeepday (talk) 15:45, 8 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]