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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER DIPROTODONTIA
--> SUBORDER MACROPODIFORMES
--> FAMILY Macropodidae
--> SUBFAMILY Macropodinae
--> GENUS Thylogale
SPECIES Thylogale lanatus
| Author: | Thomas, 1922. | | Citation: | Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 9, 9: 670. | | Common Name: | Mountain Pademelon | | Type Locality: | Papua New Guinea, Saruwaged Mtns, 3600 m. | | Distribution: | Subalpine grasslands of Huon Peninsula. | | Status: | Vulnerable. | | Comments: | Close to T. browni, and considered a subspecies of it, with some misgivings, by Flannery (1992), who however noted some consistent differences, so considered a full species here. |
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