Unplaced to Unplaced Synonym(s)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Macropus papuanus Peters, W. & Doria, G. 1875. Diagnosi di alcune nuove specie di Marsupiali appartenenti alla Fauna papuana. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genova 7: 541-544 [544].

  Type data:

   Holotype MCG 1580 ♀ juv. mounted skin (1580) & skull (1581), 'eastern mainland New Guinea, opposite Yule Island' (now in Papua New Guinea).
• Macropus papuensis Sclater 1875. [footnote to a letter addressed to the Secretary by M.L.M.D. D'Albertis]. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1875: 530-532 [532 footnote] [errore pro Macropus papuanus Peters & Doria, 1875].
• Halmaturus crassipes Ramsay, E.P. 1876. Description of a new species of kangaroo, from New Guinea. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 1: 162-164 [162].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM 1067 gallery mounted skin, southern New Guinea.
• Dorcopsis aurantiacus Rothschild, W. & Rothschild, N.C. 1898. Descriptions of three new kangaroos, and notes on the skull of Dendrolagus bennettianus. Novitates Zoologicae 5: 511-513 [513] [as Dorcopsis (?) aurantiacus].

  Type data:

   Holotype New Guinea.

  Type locality references:

  Schwarz, E. 1910. On the wallabies usually referred to Macropus agilis, Gould. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 5: 164-166 [166] (seems to refer it to the NT).

Generic Combinations

• Notamacropus agilis Unplaced.

Ecological Descriptors

Coastal, coastal dunes, folivore, frugivorous, gregarious, nocturnal, open forest, terrestrial.

History of changes