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The seven species of dorcopsises or forest wallabies (genera Dorcopsis (four species, with a fifth as yet undescribed) and Dorcopsulus (two species)) are all native to the island of New Guinea. One of the brush wallaby species, the dwarf wallaby ( Notamacropus dorcopsulus ), also native to New Guinea, is the smallest known wallaby species and ...
Ten species are categorized as endangered: Calaby's pademelon, Cape York rock-wallaby, dingiso, Goodfellow's tree-kangaroo, ifola, Matschie's tree-kangaroo, mountain pademelon, nabarlek, northern bettong, and Proserpine rock-wallaby. A further six species are categorized as critically endangered: the black dorcopsis, Gilbert's potoroo, golden ...
†Crescent nail-tail wallaby (Onychogalea lunata) Northern nail-tail wallaby (Onychogalea unguifera) Genus Petrogale. P. brachyotis species-group Short-eared rock-wallaby (Petrogale brachyotis) Monjon (Petrogale burbidgei) Nabarlek (Petrogale concinna) P. xanthopus species-group Proserpine rock-wallaby (Petrogale persephone)
In the English language, many animals have different names depending on whether they are male, female, young, domesticated, or in groups. The best-known source of many English words used for collective groupings of animals is The Book of Saint Albans , an essay on hunting published in 1486 and attributed to Juliana Berners . [ 1 ]
Macleay's dorcopsis (Dorcopsulus macleayi), also known as the Papuan dorcopsis or the Papuan forest wallaby, is a species of marsupial in the family Macropodidae. It is endemic to Papua New Guinea , where its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forest.
The author separated the species from the defunct genus Kangurus, which he proposed to divide in his synopsis of the known macropod species. [1] [4] The following is a list of species, with common names, arranged by alliances of species groups: [5] Genus Petrogale. P. brachyotis species group Short-eared rock-wallaby, Petrogale brachyotis
The yellow-footed rock-wallaby was originally known and described from specimens from South Australia. The species was subsequently discovered in New South Wales (and Queensland) where it was first recorded in 1964 [16] [17] in the Coturaundee Ranges, now part of Mutawintji National Park. [18]
A species described by George Waterhouse in 1846. The type specimen was collected at Coorong in South Australia. [4] The author cites an earlier name, Halmaturus greyii, published by John Edward Gray in 1843 without a valid description, assigning it to a subgenus of the same name—Macropus (Halmaturus)—and providing the common name of the newly described species as Grey's wallaby.