Macropus
Appearance
Macropus[1] | |
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Eastern grey kangaroo | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
Order: | Diprotodontia |
Family: | Macropodidae |
Subfamily: | Macropodinae |
Genus: | Macropus Shaw, 1790 |
Type species | |
Macropus giganteus | |
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Species density of the genus Macropus |
Macropus is a marsupial genus in the family Macropodidae. It has 13 extant species, which are divided into three subgenera. The genus includes four species of large terrestrial kangaroos, two species of wallaroos, and eight extant species of wallabies (a ninth species is extinct). The term is derived from the Ancient Greek μάκρος, makros "long" and πους, pous "foot". Thirteen known extinct species are recognised. The type species is the eastern grey kangaroo.
Taxonomy
- Genus Macropus
- Subgenus unknown
- Subgenus Notamacropus Dawson & Flannery, 1985[2]
- Agile wallaby, Macropus agilis
- Dwarf wallaby, Macropus dorcopsulus
- Black-striped wallaby, Macropus dorsalis
- Tammar wallaby, Macropus eugenii
- †Toolache wallaby, Macropus greyi (extinct, lived in the southeastern region of South Australia and in Victoria)
- Western brush wallaby, Macropus irma
- Parma wallaby: Macropus parma (rediscovered, thought to be extinct for 100 years)
- Whiptail wallaby: Macropus parryi
- Red-necked wallaby: Macropus rufogriseus
- Subgenus Osphranter
- Antilopine kangaroo, Macropus antilopinus
- Black wallaroo, Macropus bernardus
- Common wallaroo, Macropus robustus
- Red kangaroo: Macropus rufus
- †Macropus pavana
- †Macropus thor
- Subgenus Macropus Shaw, 1790
- Western grey kangaroo, Macropus fuliginosus
- Eastern grey kangaroo, Macropus giganteus
- †Macropus ferragus
- †Macropus mundjabus
- †Macropus pan
- †Macropus pearsoni
- †Macropus titan (or ↑Macropus giganteus titan)
References
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- ^ Groves, C. P. (2005). "Order Diprotodontia". In Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 63–66. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
- ^ Dawson, L.; Flannery, T. (1985). "Taxonomic and Phylogenetic Status of Living and Fossil Kangaroos and Wallabies of the Genus Macropus Shaw (Macropodidae: Marsupialia), with a New Subgeneric Name for the Larger Wallabies". Australian Journal of Zoology. 33 (4): 473–498. doi:10.1071/ZO9850473.