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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
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 swamp wallaby (Wallabia bicolor) is a small macropod marsupial of eastern Australia. [3] This wallaby is also commonly known as the black wallaby, with other names including black-tailed wallaby, fern wallaby, black pademelon, stinker (in Queensland), and black stinker (in New South Wales) on account of its characteristic swampy odour.
In this list of birds by common name 11,278 extant and recently extinct (since 1500) bird species are recognised. [1] Species marked with a "†" are extinct.
When they do gather in groups, they have a social hierarchy similar to other wallaby species. A recent study has demonstrated that wallabies, as other social or gregarious mammals, are able to manage conflict via reconciliation, involving the post-conflict reunion, after a fight, of former opponents, which engage in affinitive contacts. [7]