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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER DIPROTODONTIA
--> SUBORDER MACROPODIFORMES
--> FAMILY Macropodidae
--> SUBFAMILY Macropodinae
--> GENUS Macropus
--> SUBGENUS Macropus
SPECIES Macropus (Macropus) giganteus
| Author: | Shaw, 1790. | | Citation: | Nat. Misc., 1: pl. 33 (text). | | Common Name: | Eastern Grey Kangaroo | | Type Locality: | Australia, Queensland, Cooktown (= "New Holland"), King's Plains. | | Distribution: | E and C Queensland, Victoria, New South Wales, SE South Australia, and Tasmania (Australia). | | Status: | U.S. ESA – Endangered as M. g. tasmaniensis; otherwise Delisted Taxa (recovered); IUCN – Lower Risk (nt) as M. g. tasmaniensis, otherwise Lower Risk (lc). Abundant throughout E Australia. | | Comments: | Subgenus Macropus. Opinion 760 of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (1966) placed this name on the Official List of Specific Names in Zoology, see Calaby et al. (1963) for discussion. Revised by Kirsch and Poole (1972) who discussed specific limits and the subspecies included in this taxon. See Poole (1982, Mammalian Species, 187). |
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