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Macropus is a marsupial
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Marsupials are an infraclass of mammals, characterized by a distinctive Pouch , in which females carry their young th






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Macropus is a marsupial
Marsupial

Marsupials are an infraclass of mammals, characterized by a distinctive Pouch , in which females carry their young through early infancy....
 genus that belongs to the family Macropodidae
Macropod

Macropods are marsupials belonging to the family Macropodidae, which includes kangaroos, wallaby, tree-kangaroos, pademelons, and several others....
, it has 14 species which are further divided into 3 subgenera. The genus includes all terrestrial 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, wallaroo
Wallaroo

A wallaroo is any of three closely related species of moderately large macropod, intermediate in size between the kangaroos and the wallaby. The name "wallaroo" is a portmanteau of wallaby and kangaroo....
s and several species of wallaby
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....
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  • Genus Macropus
    • 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 (extinct)
      • 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