Species Notamacropus greyi (Waterhouse, 1845) (extinct)

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• Macropus (Halmaturus) greyi Waterhouse, G.R. 1845. A Natural History of the Mammalia. Vol. 1, containing the Order Marsupiata or pouched animals. London : Baillière 553 pp. 20 pls. [publication date established from plates in this work; these are all dated 1845 for the Macropodidae] [122] [ex Gray].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH 43.1.4.42 & 46.3.17.13 ♂ adult (43.1.4.42) & skull (46.3.17.13), SA (=Coorong).

  Type locality references:

  Iredale, T. & Troughton, E. le G. 1934. A check-list of the mammals recorded from Australia. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 6: i-xii 1-122.
• Macropus (Halmaturus) greyi Gray, J.E. 1843. List of the Specimens of Mammalia in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum xxviii 216 pp. [publication date established from Duncan, F.M. 1937. On the dates of publication of the Society's 'Proceedings', 1859–1926. With an appendix containing the dates of publication of 'Proceedings', 1830–1858, compiled by the late F.H. Waterhouse, and of the 'Transactions', 1853–1869, by the late Henry Peavot, originally published in P.Z.S. 1893, 1913. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 107: 71–84] [90] [nom. nud.].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s).

 

Generic Combinations

• Notamacropus greyi (Waterhouse, 1845). —
  Jackson, S. & Groves, C. 2015. Taxonomy of Australian Mammals. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing 520 pp. [158]

 

Distribution

States

South Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Extinct, last recorded in 1927.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

SA: Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP)

Ecological Descriptors

Folivore, gregarious, terrestrial, tussock grassland.

 

General References

Finlayson, H.H. 1927. Observations on the South Australian members of the subgenus Wallabia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 51: 363-377

Horton, D.R. & Murray, P. 1980. The extinct toolache wallaby (Macropus greyi) from a spring mound in north-western Tasmania. Records of the Queen Victoria Museum, Launceston 71: 1-12

Robinson, A.C. & Young, M.C. 1983. The toolache wallaby (Macropus greyi Waterhouse). Department of the Environment and Planning Special Publication 2: 1-54

Smith, M.J. 1995. Toolache Wallaby Macropus greyi. pp. 339-340 in Strahan, R. (ed.). The Mammals of Australia: The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. Sydney : Reed New Holland 756 pp.

 

Common Name References

ABRS 2001. Census of Australian Vertebrates. Australian Biological Resources Study. (Toolache Wallaby)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
29-Mar-2018	Notamacropus Dawson & Flannery, 1985	21-Dec-2021	MODIFIED
29-Nov-2016	MACROPODIDAE	14-Nov-2016	MODIFIED
29-Nov-2016		05-Nov-2010	MOVED
29-Oct-2010		29-Oct-2010	MOVED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)