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SPECIES Onychogalea unguifera

Author:Gould, 1840.
Actual Date:1841
Citation:Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1840: 93.
Common Name:Northern Nail-tail Wallaby
Type Locality:Australia, Western Australia, Derby (King Sound).
Distribution:N Australia: Western Australia, Northern Territory, Queensland.
Status:IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). Secure.
Comments:McAllan and Bruce (1989) argued that the original description of this name was in The Athenaeum, 670:685 [29 August 1840].
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    annulicauda De Vis, 1884

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