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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 ...
Eight species have gone extinct in the modern era, all between the 1880s and the 1940s after the colonization of Australia began: the broad-faced potoroo, crescent nail-tail wallaby, desert bettong, desert rat-kangaroo, eastern hare-wallaby, Lake Mackay hare-wallaby, Nullarbor dwarf bettong, and toolache wallaby.
Bridled nail-tail wallaby (Onychogalea fraenata) †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
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
Macropodinae is a subfamily of marsupials in the family Macropodidae, which includes the kangaroos, wallabies, and related species. The subfamily includes about ten genera and at least 51 species . It includes all living members of the Macropodidae except for the banded hare-wallaby ( Lagostrophus fasciatus ), the only surviving member of the ...
The brush-tailed rock-wallaby or small-eared rock-wallaby (Petrogale penicillata) is a kind of wallaby, one of several rock-wallabies in the genus Petrogale.It inhabits rock piles and cliff lines along the Great Dividing Range from about 100 km north-west of Brisbane to northern Victoria, in vegetation ranging from rainforest to dry sclerophyll forests.
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]
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.