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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER DIPROTODONTIA
--> SUBORDER MACROPODIFORMES
--> FAMILY Macropodidae
--> SUBFAMILY Macropodinae
--> GENUS Macropus
--> SUBGENUS Osphranter
SPECIES Macropus (Osphranter) robustus
| Author: | Gould, 1840. | | Actual Date: | 1841 | | Citation: | Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1840: 92. | | Common Name: | Wallaroo | | Type Locality: | Australia, New South Wales, interior (summit of mountains). | | Distribution: | Australia: Western Australia, South Australia, S Northern Territory, Queensland, New South Wales, Barrow Isl. | | Status: | IUCN – Vulnerable as M. r. isabellinus, otherwise Lower Risk (lc). Abundant. | | Comments: | Subgenus Osphranter. See Richardson and Sharman (1976). McAllan and Bruce (1989) would date robustus from: The Athenaeum, 670:685 [29 August 1840]. |
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