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Macropods are marsupial
Marsupial

Marsupials are an infraclass of mammals, characterized by a distinctive Pouch , in which females carry their young through early infancy....
s belonging to the family
Family (biology)

In biological classification, family is a taxonomic rank. Exact details of formal nomenclature depend on the Nomenclature Codes which applies....
 Macropodidae, which includes kangaroo
Kangaroo

A kangaroo is a marsupial from the family Macropodidae . In common use the term is used to describe the largest species from this family, the Red Kangaroo, the Antilopine Kangaroo, and the Eastern Grey Kangaroo and Western Grey Kangaroo of the Macropus genus....
s, wallabies
Wallaby

A wallaby is any of about thirty species of macropod . It is an informal designation generally used for any macropod that is smaller than a kangaroo or wallaroo that has not been given some other name....
, tree-kangaroo
Tree-kangaroo

Tree-kangaroos are macropods adapted for life in trees. They are found in the rainforests of New Guinea, far northeastern Queensland, and nearby islands, usually in mountainous areas....
s, pademelon
Pademelon

A pademelon is any of seven species of small marsupials of the genus Thylogale. They are usually found in forests. Pademelons are the smallest of the macropods....
s, and several others. Before Europe
Europe

Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
an settlement, there were about 53 species of Macropods. Six species have since become extinct. Another 11 species have been greatly reduced in numbers. Other species (e.g. Simosthenurus
Simosthenurus

Simosthenurus is a genus of megafaunal Macropodidae that existed in Australia in the Pleistocene. The members of the genus are large, Simosthenurus occidentalis weighed over 118 kilograms....
, Propleopus
Propleopus

Propleopus is an extinct genus of marsupial.Reference...
, Macropus titan) went extinct after the Australian Aborigines
Indigenous Australians

Indigenous Australians are the first human inhabitants of the Australian continent and its nearby islands and their descendants. Indigenous Australians are distinguished as either Australian Aborigines or Torres Strait Islanders, who currently together make up about 2.6% of Australia's population....
 arrived and before Europeans arrived.

opods are herbivorous
Herbivore

Herbivory is a form of predation in which an organism, known as an herbivore, heterotrophs principally autotrophs such as plants, algae and photosynthesizing bacteria....
: some are browsers
Browsing (predation)

Browsing is a type of predation in which a herbivore feeds on high growing plants such as leaves, soft shoots, or fruits. This is contrasted with grazing predation, usually associated with animals feeding on grass or other low vegetation....
, but most are grazers
Grazing

Grazing generally describes a type of predation in which a herbivore feeds on plants , or more broadly on a multicellular autotrophs . Grazing differs from true predation because the organism being eaten is not death, and it differs from parasitism as the two organisms do not symbiosis, nor is the grazer necessarily so limited in what it can...
 and are equipped with appropriately specialised teeth
Tooth

Teeth are small whitish structures found in the jaws of many vertebrates that are used to tear, scrape, and chew food. Some animals, particularly carnivores, also use teeth for hunting or defense....
 for cropping and grinding up fibrous plants, in particular grass
Grass

Grass is the common word that generally describes monocotyledonous green plants. The family Poaceae are the "true grasses" and include most plants grown as grains, for pasture, and for lawns ....
es and sedge
Cyperaceae

The family Cyperaceae, or the sedges, is a taxon of monocotyledon flowering plants that superficially resemble Poaceae or Juncaceae. The family is large, with some 4,000 species described in about 70 genera....
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Macropods are marsupial
Marsupial

Marsupials are an infraclass of mammals, characterized by a distinctive Pouch , in which females carry their young through early infancy....
s belonging to the family
Family (biology)

In biological classification, family is a taxonomic rank. Exact details of formal nomenclature depend on the Nomenclature Codes which applies....
 Macropodidae, which includes kangaroo
Kangaroo

A kangaroo is a marsupial from the family Macropodidae . In common use the term is used to describe the largest species from this family, the Red Kangaroo, the Antilopine Kangaroo, and the Eastern Grey Kangaroo and Western Grey Kangaroo of the Macropus genus....
s, wallabies
Wallaby

A wallaby is any of about thirty species of macropod . It is an informal designation generally used for any macropod that is smaller than a kangaroo or wallaroo that has not been given some other name....
, tree-kangaroo
Tree-kangaroo

Tree-kangaroos are macropods adapted for life in trees. They are found in the rainforests of New Guinea, far northeastern Queensland, and nearby islands, usually in mountainous areas....
s, pademelon
Pademelon

A pademelon is any of seven species of small marsupials of the genus Thylogale. They are usually found in forests. Pademelons are the smallest of the macropods....
s, and several others. Before Europe
Europe

Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
an settlement, there were about 53 species of Macropods. Six species have since become extinct. Another 11 species have been greatly reduced in numbers. Other species (e.g. Simosthenurus
Simosthenurus

Simosthenurus is a genus of megafaunal Macropodidae that existed in Australia in the Pleistocene. The members of the genus are large, Simosthenurus occidentalis weighed over 118 kilograms....
, Propleopus
Propleopus

Propleopus is an extinct genus of marsupial.Reference...
, Macropus titan) went extinct after the Australian Aborigines
Indigenous Australians

Indigenous Australians are the first human inhabitants of the Australian continent and its nearby islands and their descendants. Indigenous Australians are distinguished as either Australian Aborigines or Torres Strait Islanders, who currently together make up about 2.6% of Australia's population....
 arrived and before Europeans arrived.

Physical description

Macropods are herbivorous
Herbivore

Herbivory is a form of predation in which an organism, known as an herbivore, heterotrophs principally autotrophs such as plants, algae and photosynthesizing bacteria....
: some are browsers
Browsing (predation)

Browsing is a type of predation in which a herbivore feeds on high growing plants such as leaves, soft shoots, or fruits. This is contrasted with grazing predation, usually associated with animals feeding on grass or other low vegetation....
, but most are grazers
Grazing

Grazing generally describes a type of predation in which a herbivore feeds on plants , or more broadly on a multicellular autotrophs . Grazing differs from true predation because the organism being eaten is not death, and it differs from parasitism as the two organisms do not symbiosis, nor is the grazer necessarily so limited in what it can...
 and are equipped with appropriately specialised teeth
Tooth

Teeth are small whitish structures found in the jaws of many vertebrates that are used to tear, scrape, and chew food. Some animals, particularly carnivores, also use teeth for hunting or defense....
 for cropping and grinding up fibrous plants, in particular grass
Grass

Grass is the common word that generally describes monocotyledonous green plants. The family Poaceae are the "true grasses" and include most plants grown as grains, for pasture, and for lawns ....
es and sedge
Cyperaceae

The family Cyperaceae, or the sedges, is a taxon of monocotyledon flowering plants that superficially resemble Poaceae or Juncaceae. The family is large, with some 4,000 species described in about 70 genera....
s. In general, macropods have a broad, straight row of cutting teeth at the front of the mouth, no canine
Canine tooth

In mammalian oral anatomy, the canine teeth, also called cuspids, dogteeth, fangs, or eye teeth, are relatively long, pointed tooth....
 teeth, and a gap before the molar
Molar (tooth)

Molars are the rearmost and most complicated kind of tooth in most mammals. In many mammals they grind food; hence the Latin name mola, "millstone"....
s. The molars are large and, unusually, do not appear all at once but a pair at a time at the back of the mouth as the animal ages, eventually becoming worn down by the tough, abrasive grasses and falling out. Most species have four molars and, when the last pair is too worn to be of use, they starve
Starvation

Starvation is a severe reduction in vitamin, nutrient, and energy intake, and is the most extreme form of malnutrition. In humans, prolonged starvation causes permanent organ damage and, eventually, death....
. The dental formula for macropods is:

Like the eutheria
Eutheria

Eutheria are a group of mammals consisting of placental mammals plus all extinct mammals that are more closely related to living placentals than to living marsupials ....
n ruminant
Ruminant

Physiologically, a ruminant is a mammal of the order Artiodactyla that digests plant-based food by initially softening it within the animal's first stomach, known as the rumen, then regurgitating the semi-digested mass, now known as cud, and chewing it again....
s of the northern hemisphere (sheep
Sheep

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, cattle
Cattle

Cattle, colloquially referred to as cows, are domestication ungulates, a member of the subfamily Bovinae of the family Bovidae. They are raised as livestock for meat , dairy products , leather and as draft animals ....
, and so on), macropods have specialised digestive systems that use a high concentration of bacteria, protozoans, and fungi in the first chamber of a complex stomach to digest plant material. The details of organisation are quite different, but the end result is somewhat similar.

Macropods vary in size considerably but most have very large hind legs and a long, powerfully muscle
MUSCLE

MUSCLE is public domain, multiple sequence alignment software for protein and nucleotide sequences.MUSCLE is integrated into UGENE bioinformatics tool as a plugin....
d tail
Tail

The tail is the section at the rear end of an animal's body; in general, the term refers to a distinct, flexible appendage to the torso. It is the part of the body that corresponds roughly to the sacrum and coccyx in mammals and birds....
. The term macropod comes from the Greek
Greek language

Greek is an Indo-European languages native to the southern Balkan peninsula, the language of the Greek people. It forms an independent branch within Indo-European....
 for "long foot" and is appropriate: most have a very long, narrow hind foot with a distinctive arrangement of toe
Toe

Toes are the Digit s of the foot of an animal. Many animal species such as cats walk on their toes, and are described as being digitigrade....
s: the fourth toe is very large and strong, the fifth toe moderately so, the second and third are fused and the first toe is usually missing. The short front legs have five separate digits. Some macropods have 7 carpal bones instead of the usual 8 in mammals . All have relatively small heads and most have large ear
Ear

The ear is the sense organ that detects sounds. The vertebrate ear shows a common biology from fish to humans, with variations in structure according to order and species....
s, except for tree-kangaroo
Tree-kangaroo

Tree-kangaroos are macropods adapted for life in trees. They are found in the rainforests of New Guinea, far northeastern Queensland, and nearby islands, usually in mountainous areas....
s, which must move quickly between tight branches. The young
Joey (marsupial)

A joey is any infant marsupial.Marsupials have an extremely short gestation period , and the joey is 'born' basically in a Fetus state. The blind, furless, miniature newborn, the size of a jelly bean, crawls across its mother's fur to make its way into the pouch , where it latches onto a teat for food....
 are born very small and the pouch
Pouch (marsupial)

The pouch is a distinguishing feature of female marsupials; the name marsupial is derived from the Latin marsupium, meaning pouch. Marsupials give birth to a live but relatively undeveloped fetus called a joey ....
 opens forward.

The unusual development of the hind legs is optimised for economical long distance travel at fairly high speed. The greatly elongated feet provide enormous leverage for the strong legs. But there is more to the famous kangaroo hop: kangaroos and wallabies have a unique ability to store elastic strain energy in their tendons. In consequence, most of the energy required for each hop is provided "free" by the spring action of the tendons (rather than by muscular effort). The main limitation on a macropod's ability to leap is not the strength of the muscles in the hindquarters. It is the ability of the joints and tendons to withstand the strain of hopping.

In addition, there is a linkage between the hopping action and breathing. As the feet leave the ground, air is expelled from the lungs by what amounts to an internal piston; bringing the feet forward ready for landing fills the lungs again, providing further energy efficiency. Studies of kangaroos and wallabies have demonstrated that, beyond the minimum energy expenditure required to hop at all, increased speed requires very little extra effort (much less than the same speed increase in, say, a horse, a dog, or a human), and also that little extra energy is required to carry extra weight — something that is of obvious importance to females carrying large pouch young.

The ability of larger macropods to survive on poor-quality, low-energy feed, and to travel long distances at high speed without great energy expenditure (to reach fresh food supplies or waterholes, and to escape predators) has been crucial to their evolutionary success on a continent that, because of soil fertility and low, unpredictable average rainfall, offers only very limited primary plant productivity.

Gestation
Gestation

Gestation is the carrying of an embryo or fetus inside a female viviparous animal. Mammals during mammalian pregnancy can have one or more gestations at the same time ....
 in macropods lasts about a month, being slightly longer in the largest species. Typically, only a single young is born, weighing less than a gram at birth. They soon attach themselves to one of four teats inside the mother's pouch. The young leave the pouch after 5-11 months, and are weaned
Weaning

Weaning is the process of gradually introducing a mammal infant, either human or animal, to what will be its adult diet and withdrawing the supply of its mother's milk....
 after a further 2-6 months. Macropods reach sexual maturity at 1-3 years of age, depending on species.

Fossil record

The earliest known fossil
Fossil

Fossils are the preserved remains or trace fossil of animals, plants, and other organisms from the remote past. The totality of fossils, both discovered and undiscovered, and their placement in fossiliferous Rock formations and sedimentary rock layers is known as the fossil record....
 macropod dates back about 11.61mya
Mya (unit)

In astronomy, geology, and paleontology, mya or "m.y.a." is an abbreviation for "million years ago". Like the related unit bya, mya is traditionally written in lower case....
 to 28.4mya, either in the Miocene
Miocene

The Miocene is a Geologic time scale of the Neogene period and extends from about 23.03 to 5.33 million years before the present. As with other older geologic periods, the rock beds that define the start and end are well identified but the exact dates of the start and end of the period are uncertain....
 or Late Oligocene, and was uncovered in South Australia
South Australia

South Australia is a States and territories of Australia of Australia in the southern central part of the country. It covers some of the most arid parts of the continent; with a total land area of , it is the fourth largest of Australia's six states and two territories....
. Unfortunately, the fossil could not be identified any further than the family. A Queensland
Queensland

Queensland is a States and territories of Australia of Australia, occupying the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory to the west, South Australia to the south-west and New South Wales to the south....
 fossil of a species similar to Hadronomas has been dated at around 5.33mya to 11.61mya, falling in the Late Miocene
Late Miocene

The Late Miocene is a sub-epoch of the Miocene epoch made up of two faunal stage. The Tortonian and Messinian stages comprise the Late Miocene sub-epoch....
 or Early Pliocene. The earliest completely identifiable fossils are from around 5.33mya.

Classification

Tree Kangaroo On A Branch Facing
Red Kangaroo 5legs
Pademelon Eating With Hands
Flying Kangaroo
There are two subfamilies in the Macropodidae family: the Sthenurinae
Sthenurinae

The Sthenurinae is a sub-family within the marsupial family Macropodidae, meaning 'short faced kangaroos'. Only a single species occurs today, with all the other known genera existing in the Pleistocene, these included some of the largest fossil macropods....
 was highly successful in the Pleistocene
Pleistocene

The Pleistocene is the epoch from 1.8 million to 10,000 years Before Present covering the world's recent period of repeated glaciations. The name pleistocene is derived from the Greek and ....
 but is now represented by just a single species, and a vulnerable one at that, the Banded Hare-wallaby
Banded Hare-wallaby

The Banded Hare-wallaby is a marsupial that is currently found on the Islands of Bernier Island and Dorre off western Australia. A small population has recently been established on Faure Island and it appears to have been successful....
; the remainder, about 60 species, makes up the subfamily Macropodinae.

  • FAMILY MACROPODIDAE
    • Genus †Watutia
    • Genus †Dorcopsoides
    • Genus †Kurrabi
    • Subfamily Sthenurinae
      Sthenurinae

      The Sthenurinae is a sub-family within the marsupial family Macropodidae, meaning 'short faced kangaroos'. Only a single species occurs today, with all the other known genera existing in the Pleistocene, these included some of the largest fossil macropods....
      • Genus †Hadronomas
      • Genus †Eosthenurus
      • Genus †Sthenurus
        Sthenurus

        Sthenurus is an extinct genus of kangaroo. With a height of about 3 m , some species were twice as large as modern extant species. Sthenurus was related to the better-known Procoptodon....
      • Genus †Procoptodon
        Procoptodon

        Procoptodon was a genus of giant short-faced kangaroo living in Australia during the Pleistocene epoch. P. goliah, the largest kangaroo that ever existed, stood approximately 3 metres tall and weighed about ....
      • Genus †Nambaroo
        Nambaroo

        Nambaroo gillespieae is an extinct genus of macropod marsupial from the late Oligocene some 25 million years ago of Australia.Sources...
      • Genus †Wururoo
      • Genus †Ganawamaya
      • Genus †Balbaroo
      • Genus †Silvaroo
        Silvaroo

        Silvaroo is a genus of megafaunal Macropodidae that existed in Australia in the Pleistocene. Based on fossil evidence and affinities with the extant forest wallabies from the genera Dorcopsis and Dorcopsulus from Papua New Guinea, the two species of this genera were removed from the genus Protemnodon to Silvaroo....
      • Genus Lagostrophus
        • Banded Hare-wallaby
          Banded Hare-wallaby

          The Banded Hare-wallaby is a marsupial that is currently found on the Islands of Bernier Island and Dorre off western Australia. A small population has recently been established on Faure Island and it appears to have been successful....
          , Lagostrophus fasciatus
    • Subfamily Macropodinae
      • Genus †Prionotemnus
      • Genus †Congruus
      • Genus †Baringa
      • Genus †Bohra
      • Genus †Synaptodon
      • Genus †Fissuridon
      • Genus †Protemnodon
        Protemnodon

        Protemnodon is a genus of megafaunal Macropodidae that existed in Australia and Papua New Guinea in the Pleistocene. Based on fossil evidence it is though that the known Protemnodon were physically similar to wallaby but far larger; Protemnodon hopei was the smallest in the genus weighing about 45 kilograms, the other species all...
      • Genus †Troposodon
      • Genus Dendrolagus: tree-kangaroo
        Tree-kangaroo

        Tree-kangaroos are macropods adapted for life in trees. They are found in the rainforests of New Guinea, far northeastern Queensland, and nearby islands, usually in mountainous areas....
        s
        • Grizzled Tree-kangaroo
          Grizzled Tree-kangaroo

          The Grizzled Tree-kangaroo is a species of marsupial in the Macropodidae family. It is found in foothill forest in northern and western New Guinea....
          , Dendrolagus inustus
        • Lumholtz's Tree-kangaroo
          Lumholtz's Tree-kangaroo

          Lumholtz's Tree-kangaroo is a heavy-bodied tree-kangaroo found in rain forests of the Atherton Tableland Region of Queensland. Its status is classified as Near Threatened by the IUCN, although local authorities classify it as rare....
          , Dendrolagus lumholtzi
        • Bennett's Tree-kangaroo
          Bennett's Tree-kangaroo

          Bennett's Tree-kangaroo is a large tree-kangaroo. Males can weigh from 11.5 kg up to almost 14 kg , while the females range between about 8 to 10.6 kg ....
          , Dendrolagus bennettianus
        • Ursine Tree-kangaroo
          Ursine Tree-kangaroo

          The Ursine Tree-kangaroo is a species of marsupial in the Macropodidae family. It is Endemism to Indonesia. It is threatened by habitat loss....
          , Dendrolagus ursinus
        • Matschie's Tree-kangaroo
          Matschie's Tree-kangaroo

          Matschie's Tree-kangaroo , also known as the Huon Tree-kangaroo belongs to the family Macropodidae, which includes about 55 species of kangaroos, wallabies and their relatives....
          , Dendrolagus matschiei
        • Doria's Tree-kangaroo
          Doria's Tree-kangaroo

          Doria's Tree-kangaroo is a tree-kangaroo found in montane forests of New Guinea at elevations between 600-3650m. It is mostly solitary and nocturnal....
          , Dendrolagus dorianus
        • Goodfellow’s Tree-kangaroo, Dendrolagus goodfellowi
        • Lowlands Tree-kangaroo
          Lowlands Tree-kangaroo

          The Lowland Tree Kangaroo is a species of marsupial in the Macropodidae family. It is Endemism to Papua New Guinea. It is threatened by habitat loss....
          , Dendrolagus spadix
        • Golden-mantled Tree-kangaroo
          Golden-mantled Tree-kangaroo

          The Golden-mantled Tree-kangaroo, Dendrolagus pulcherrimus is a species of tree-kangaroo native and endemic to montane forests of northern New Guinea....
          , Dendrolagus pulcherrimus
        • Seri's Tree-kangaroo, Dendrolagus stellarum
        • Dingiso
          Dingiso

          The Dingiso , also known as Bondegezou, is a species of tree-kangaroo native and endemic to Western New Guinea of Indonesia....
          , Dendrolagus mbaiso
        • Tenkile
          Tenkile

          The Tenkile , also known as Scott's Tree-kangaroo, is a species of marsupial in the Macropodidae family.It is Endemism to Papua New Guinea....
          , Dendrolagus scottae
      • Genus Dorcopsis
        Dorcopsis

        The dorcopsises are the marsupials of the genus Dorcopsis and Dorcopsulus....
        • Brown Dorcopsis
          Brown Dorcopsis

          The Brown Dorcopsis is a species of marsupial in the Macropodidae family. It is Endemism to Indonesia.References...
          , Dorcopsis muelleri
        • White-striped Dorcopsis
          White-striped Dorcopsis

          The Greater Forest-wallaby or White-striped Dorcopsis is a species of marsupial in the Macropodidae family. It is found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea....
          , Dorcopsis hageni
        • Black Dorcopsis
          Black Dorcopsis

          The Black Dorcopsis or Black Forest-wallaby is a species of marsupial in the Macropodidae family. It is Endemism to Papua New Guinea. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests....
          , Dorcopsis atrata
        • Gray Dorcopsis
          Gray Dorcopsis

          The Gray Dorcopsis is a species of marsupial in the Macropodidae family. It is found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.References...
          , Dorcopsis luctuosa
      • Genus Dorcopsulus
        Dorcopsulus

        Dorcopsulus is a genus of marsupial in the Macropodidae family.It contains the following species:* Macleay's Dorcopsis * Small Dorcopsis ...
        • Small Dorcopsis
          Small Dorcopsis

          The Lesser Forest-wallaby or Small Dorcopsis is a species of marsupial in the Macropodidae family. It is found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea....
          , Dorcopsulus vanheurni
        • Macleay's Dorcopsis
          Macleay's Dorcopsis

          Macleay's Dorcopsis , also known as the Papuan Dorcopsis or the Papuan Forest-wallaby, is a species of marsupial in the Macropodidae family....
          , Dorcopsulus macleayi
      • Genus Lagorchestes
        Lagorchestes

        Lagorchestes is a genus containing all but one of the species referred to as hare-wallabies. It has four species, two of which are extinct:...
        • †Lake Mackay Hare-wallaby
          Lake Mackay Hare-wallaby

          The Lake Mackay Hare-wallaby , also known as the Central Hare-wallaby or Kuluwarri, is an extinct species of macropod formerly found in central Australia....
          , †Lagorchestes asomatus
        • Spectacled Hare-wallaby
          Spectacled Hare-wallaby

          The Spectacled Hare-wallaby is a species of macropod found in Australia. A small sub-population is found on Barrow Island, Western Australia, the mainland type is widespread, though in decline, across northern regions of the country....
          , Lagorchestes conspicillatus
        • Rufous Hare-wallaby
          Rufous Hare-wallaby

          The Rufous Hare-wallaby , also known as the Mala, is a small macropod found in Australia. It was formerly widely distributed across the western half of the continent but is now confined to Bernier Island and Dorre Island Islands off Western Australia....
          , Lagorchestes hirsutus
        • †Eastern Hare-wallaby
          Eastern Hare-wallaby

          The Eastern Hare-wallaby is an extinct species of wallaby. It lived on inland plains of South-eastern Australia. It had hare-like habits. It sat still in a well-formed 'seat' by day, usually in the shelter of a tussock grass....
          , †Lagorchestes leporides
      • Genus Macropus
        Macropus

        Macropus is a marsupial genus that belongs to the family Macropod, it has 14 species which are further divided into 3 subgenera. The genus includes all terrestrial kangaroos, wallaroos and several species of wallaby....
        • Subgenus Notamacropus
          • Agile Wallaby
            Agile Wallaby

            The Agile Wallaby , also known as the Sandy Wallaby, is a species of wallaby found in northern Australia and New Guinea. It is the most common wallaby in Australia's north....
            , Macropus agilis
          • Black-striped Wallaby
            Black-striped Wallaby

            The Black-striped Wallaby , also known as the Scrub Wallaby, is a medium-sized wallaby found in Australia, from Townsville, Queensland in Queensland to Narrabri, New South Wales in New South Wales....
            , Macropus dorsalis
          • Tammar Wallaby
            Tammar Wallaby

            The Tammar Wallaby , also known as the Dama Wallaby or Darma Wallaby, is a small member of the kangaroo family and is the type species for research on kangaroos and marsupials....
            , Macropus eugenii
          • †Toolache Wallaby
            Toolache Wallaby

            The Toolache Wallaby is an extinct species of wallaby from South-western South Australia and South-western Victoria . Many people considered it to be the most elegant, graceful and swift species of kangaroo....
            , †Macropus greyii
          • Western Brush Wallaby
            Western Brush Wallaby

            The Western Brush Wallaby , also known as the Black-gloved Wallaby, is a species of wallaby found in southwestern Western Australia. It is listed as near threatened by the IUCN, and the main threat towards it seems to be predation by the introduced Red Fox ....
            , Macropus irma
          • Parma Wallaby
            Parma Wallaby

            The Parma Wallaby was first described by British naturalist John Gould in about 1840. A shy, cryptic creature of the wet sclerophyll forests of southern New South Wales, it was never common and, even before the end of the 19th century, it was believed to be extinct....
            , Macropus parma (rediscovered, thought extinct for 100 years)
          • Pretty-faced Wallaby
            Pretty-faced Wallaby

            The Pretty-faced Wallaby , also known as the Whiptail Wallaby, is a species of wallaby found in eastern Australia. It is locally common from Cooktown, Queensland in Queensland to near Grafton, New South Wales in New South Wales....
            , Macropus parryi
          • Red-necked Wallaby
            Red-necked Wallaby

            The Red-necked Wallaby is a medium-sized pooopiemacropod, common in the more temperate and fertile parts of eastern Australia. As one of the largest Wallaby, it can easily be mistaken for a kangaroo....
            , Macropus rufogriseus
        • Subgenus Osphranter
          • Antilopine Kangaroo
            Antilopine Kangaroo

            The Antilopine Kangaroo , sometimes called the Antilopine Wallaroo or the Antilopine Wallaby, is a species of macropod found in northern Australia: in Cape York Peninsula in Queensland, the Top End of the Northern Territory, and the Kimberley region of Western Australia region of Western Australia....
            , Macropus antilopinus
          • Woodward's Wallaroo
            Woodward's Wallaroo

            Woodward's Wallaroo , also known as the Black Wallaroo and Bernard's Wallaroo, is a species of macropod restricted to a small, mountainous area in Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, between South Alligator River and Nabarlek, Queensland....
            , Macropus bernadus
          • Eastern Wallaroo
            Eastern Wallaroo

            The Eastern Wallaroo , also known as the Common Wallaroo, the Hill Wallaroo or the Euro, is a large, variable species of macropod found throughout much of the Australian mainland....
            , Macropus robustus
          • Red Kangaroo
            Red Kangaroo

            The Red Kangaroo is the largest of all kangaroos, the largest mammal native to Australia, and the largest surviving marsupial. It is found across mainland Australia, avoiding only the more fertile areas in the south, the east coast, and the northern rainforests....
            , Macropus rufus
        • Subgenus Macropus
          • Western Grey Kangaroo
            Western Grey Kangaroo

            The Western Grey Kangaroo is a large and very common macropod, found across almost the entire southern part of Australia, from just south of Shark Bay to coastal South Australia, western Victoria, Australia, and the entire Murray-Darling Basin in New South Wales and Queensland....
            , Macropus fuliginosus
          • Eastern Grey Kangaroo
            Eastern Grey Kangaroo

            The Eastern Grey Kangaroo is a marsupial found in southern and eastern Australia, with a population of several million. It is also known as the Great Grey Kangaroo and the Forester Kangaroo....
            , Macropus giganteus
      • Genus Onychogalea
        • Bridled Nail-tail Wallaby
          Bridled Nail-tail Wallaby

          The Bridled Nail-tail Wallaby is an endangered species of wallaby, presently found in three isolated pockets Queensland, Australia. The small wallaby is named for its two distinguishing characteristics; a white "bridle" line that runs down from the back of the neck around the shoulders, and the horny spur on the end of its tail....
          , Onychogalea fraenata
        • †Crescent Nail-tail Wallaby
          Crescent Nail-tail Wallaby

          The Crescent Nail-tail Wallaby was a nail-tail wallaby that lived in the woodlands and scrubs of the west and centre of Australia. It had silky fur and, like other nail-tail wallabies, had a horny spur at the tip of its tail....
          , †Onychogalea lunata
        • Northern Nail-tail Wallaby
          Northern Nail-tail Wallaby

          The Northern Nail-tail Wallaby , also known as the Sandy Nail-tail Wallaby, is a species of macropod found in Queensland, Western Australia and Northern Territory....
          , Onychogalea unguifera
      • Genus Petrogale
        • P. brachyotis species-group
          • Short-eared Rock-wallaby
            Short-eared Rock-wallaby

            The Short-eared Rock-wallaby is a species of rock-wallaby found in northern Australia, in the northernmost parts of Northern Territory and Western Australia....
            , Petrogale brachyotis
          • Monjon
            Monjon

            The Monjon , also known as the Warabi, is the smallest of the many species of rock-wallaby found in Australia. It is found in areas of the Kimberley region of Western Australia and also on some islands in the Bonaparte Archipelago....
            , Petrogale burbidgei
          • Nabarlek
            Nabarlek

            The Nabarlek , also known as the Pygmy Rock-wallaby or the Little Rock-wallaby, is a very small species of macropod found in northern Australia....
            , Petrogale concinna
        • P. xanthopus species-group
          • Proserpine Rock-wallaby
            Proserpine Rock-wallaby

            The Proserpine Rock-wallaby is a species of rock-wallaby restricted to a small area in the in Conway National Park, Dryander National Park, Gloucester Island National Park, and around the town of Airlie Beach, all in Whitsunday Shire in Queensland, Australia....
            , Petrogale persephone
          • Rothschild's Rock-wallaby
            Rothschild's Rock-wallaby

            Rothschild's Rock-wallaby , sometimes known as the Roebourne Rock-wallaby, is a species of macropod found in Western Australia, in the Pilbara district and the Dampier Archipelago....
            , Petrogale rothschildi
          • Yellow-footed Rock-wallaby
            Yellow-footed Rock-wallaby

            The Yellow-footed Rock-wallaby is a member of the macropodidae family .The Yellow-footed Rock-wallaby is grey-brown with a yellow striped tail, white underside, yellow forearms and yellow feet....
            , Petrogale xanthopus
        • P. lateralis/penicillata species-group
          • Allied Rock-wallaby
            Allied Rock-wallaby

            The Allied Rock-wallaby is a species of rock-wallaby found in northeastern Queensland, Australia. It is very similar to six other species of rock-wallaby found in this area, including the Cape York Rock-wallaby , the Unadorned Rock-wallaby , and Herbert's Rock-wallaby ....
            , Petrogale assimilis
          • Cape York Rock-wallaby
            Cape York Rock-wallaby

            The Cape York Rock-wallaby is a species of rock-wallaby restricted to Cape York Peninsula in northeastern Queensland, Australia. It is a member of a group of seven very closely-related rock-wallabies, all found in northeastern Queensland, also including the Mt Claro Rock-wallaby , the Mareeba Rock-wallaby and Godman's Rock-wallaby ....
            , Petrogale coenensis
          • Godman's Rock-wallaby
            Godman's Rock-wallaby

            Godman's Rock-wallaby is a diprotodont marsupial, and a rather typical rock-wallaby. It is found in northern and north-eastern Queensland, Australia....
            , Petrogale godmani
          • Herbert's Rock-wallaby
            Herbert's Rock-wallaby

            Herbert's Rock-wallaby is a member of a group of seven very closely-related rock-wallaby found in northeastern Queensland, Australia. Herbert's is the most southerly and most widespread of the group....
            , Petrogale herberti
          • Unadorned Rock-wallaby
            Unadorned Rock-wallaby

            The Unadorned Rock-wallaby is a member of a group of closely related rock-wallaby found in northeastern Queensland, Australia. It is paler than most of its relatives and even plainer, hence its common name....
            , Petrogale inornata
          • Black-flanked Rock-wallaby
            Black-flanked Rock-wallaby

            The Black-flanked Rock-wallaby , also known as the Black-footed Rock-wallaby or Warru, is a kind of wallaby, one of several Rock-wallaby in the genus Petrogale....
            , Petrogale lateralis
          • Mareeba Rock-wallaby
            Mareeba Rock-wallaby

            The Mareeba Rock-wallaby is a species of rock-wallaby found in northeastern Queensland, Australia. It is a member of a group of seven very closely related species which also include the Cape York Rock-wallaby , the Unadorned Rock-wallaby and the Allied Rock-wallaby ....
            , Petrogale mareeba
          • Brush-tailed Rock-wallaby
            Brush-tailed Rock-wallaby

            The Brush-tailed Rock-wallaby or Small-eared Rock-wallaby is a kind of wallaby, one of several rock-wallaby 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 Sclerophyll....
            , Petrogale penicillata
          • Purple-necked Rock-wallaby
            Purple-necked Rock-wallaby

            The Purple-necked Rock-wallaby was first classified in 1924 by Albert Sherbourne Le Souef, then director of the Taronga Zoo in Sydney, Australia, who noted a strange purple colouration around the neck as well as skull differences separating it from other rock-wallaby species....
            , Petrogale purpureicollis
          • Mt. Claro Rock-wallaby
            Mt. Claro Rock-wallaby

            The Mt. Claro Rock-wallaby , also known as Sharman's Rock-wallaby, is a species of rock-wallaby found in northeastern Queensland, Australia....
            , Petrogale sharmani
      • Genus Setonix
        • Quokka
          Quokka

          The Quokka , the only member of the genus Setonix, is a small macropod about the size of a large domestic cat. Like other marsupials in the macropod family , the Quokka is herbivorous and mainly nocturnal....
          : Setonix brachyurus
      • Genus Thylogale
        • Tasmanian Pademelon
          Tasmanian Pademelon

          The Tasmanian Pademelon , also known as the Rufous-bellied Pademelon or Red-bellied Pademelon, is the sole Endemism species of pademelon found in Tasmania....
          , Thylogale billardierii
        • Brown's Pademelon
          Brown's Pademelon

          Brown's Pademelon is a species of marsupial in the Macropodidae family. It is found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, dry savanna, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, and subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland....
          , Thylogale browni
        • Dusky Pademelon
          Dusky Pademelon

          The Dusky Pademelon or Dusky Wallaby is a species of marsupial in the Macropodidae family. It is found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea....
          , Thylogale brunii
        • Calaby's Pademelon
          Calaby's Pademelon

          Calaby's Pademelon , also known as the Alpine Wallaby, is a species of marsupial in the Macropodidae family. It is Endemism to Papua New Guinea....
          , Thylogale calabyi
        • Mountain Pademelon
          Mountain Pademelon

          The Mountain Pademelon is a member of the Thylogale genus. It is found only in Papua New Guinea.ReferencesExternal_links...
          , Thylogale lanatus
        • Red-legged Pademelon
          Red-legged Pademelon

          The Red-legged Pademelon is a species of small macropod found on the northeastern coast of Australia and in New Guinea. In Australia it has a scattered distribution from the tip of Cape York Peninsula in Queensland to around Tamworth, New South Wales in New South Wales....
          , Thylogale stigmatica
        • Red-necked Pademelon
          Red-necked Pademelon

          The Red-necked Pademelon is a forest-dwelling marsupial living in the eastern coastal region of Australia. Mainly nocturnal, the Red-necked Pademelon is very shy and generally inhabits temperate forests near grassland, hiding in the forests by day and emerging into the grasslands to graze in the dusk....
          , Thylogale thetis
      • Genus Wallabia
        • Swamp Wallaby
          Swamp Wallaby

          The Swamp Wallaby is a small macropod marsupial of eastern Australia. This wallaby is also commonly known as the Black Wallaby, with other names including Black-tailed Wallaby, Fern Wallaby, Black Pademelon, Stinker , and Black Stinker ....
           or Black Wallaby, Wallabia bicolor


See also

  • Australian megafauna
    Australian megafauna

    Australian megafauna are a number of large animal species in Australia , often defined as species with body mass estimates of greater than 30 kilograms, or equal to or greater than 30% greater body mass than their closest living relatives....
  • Macropod hybrids
    Macropod hybrids

    Macropod hybrids are Hybrid of animals within the family Macropodidae. Several macropod hybrids have been experimentally bred, including:* Eastern Wallaroo X Red Kangaroo ....


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