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--> FAMILY Macropodidae
--> SUBFAMILY Macropodinae
--> GENUS Macropus
--> SUBGENUS Osphranter
SPECIES Macropus (Osphranter) rufus
Author: | Desmarest, 1822. | Citation: | Mammalogis. In Encycl. Méth., 2(Suppl.): 541. | Common Name: | Red Kangaroo | Type Locality: | Australia, New South Wales, Blue Mtns. | Distribution: | Mainland, mid-latitude Australia. | Status: | U.S. ESA – Delisted Taxa (recovered); IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). Very abundant. | Comments: | Maintained in a monotypic genus Megaleia by McKenna and Bell (1997), but Dawson and Flannery (1985) showed that it belongs in genus Macropus, subgenus Osphranter. |
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dissimulatus W. Rothschild, 1905 griseolanosus (Quoy and Gaimard, 1825) laniger (Gaimard, 1823) lanigerus Gray, 1825 lanosus (Gray, 1827) occidentalis Cahn, 1906 pallidus Schwarz, 1910 pictus Gould, 1861 ruber Crisp, 1862
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