Macropus
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| Red-necked Wallaby | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
| Order: | Diprotodontia |
| Suborder: | Macropodiformes |
| Family: | Macropodidae |
| Genus: | Macropus Shaw, 1790 |
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Macropus is a marsupial genus that belongs to the family Macropodidae. It has 14 species. The genus includes all land kangaroos, wallaroos and several species of wallaby.
Taxonomy [change]
- Genus Macropus
- Subgenus Notamacropus
- Agile Wallaby, Macropus agilis
- Black-striped Wallaby, Macropus dorsalis
- Tammar Wallaby, Macropus eugenii
- Toolache Wallaby, Macropus greyii (extinct)
- Western Brush Wallaby, Macropus irma
- Parma Wallaby: Macropus parma (rediscovered, thought extinct for 100 years)
- Pretty-faced Wallaby: Macropus parryi
- Red-necked Wallaby: Macropus rufogriseus
- Subgenus Osphranter
- Antilopine Kangaroo, Macropus antilopinus
- Woodward's Wallaroo, Macropus bernadus
- Eastern Wallaroo, Macropus robustus
- Red Kangaroo: Macropus rufus
- Subgenus Macropus
- Western Grey Kangaroo, Macropus fuliginosus
- Eastern Grey Kangaroo, Macropus giganteus
- Subgenus Notamacropus
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