Genus Macropus Shaw, 1790

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Genus Macropus Shaw, 1790

Macropus Shaw, G. 1790. The Naturalist's Miscellany: or coloured figures of natural objects, drawn and described immediately from nature. London : G. Kearsley Vol. 1. [text to pl. 23].
Type species:
Macropus giganteus Shaw, 1790 by monotypy.
Gigantomys Link, H.F. 1794. Beyträge zur Naturgeschichte. Bd 1, Stückl, Ueber die Leiter der Natur, das natürliche und Künstliche System. 124 pp. [70].
Type species:
Gigantomys cangura Link, 1794 by monotypy.
Kangurus Geoffroy [Saint-Hilaire], É. & Cuvier, G.L.C.F.D. 1795. Mémoire sur une nouvelle division des mammifères, et les principes qui doivent servir de base dans cette sorte de travail. Magasin Encyclopédique. Paris : Millin, Noel et Warens Vol. 2(6) 164-190 pp. [188].
Type species:
Macropus giganteus Shaw, 1790 by monotypy.
Kanguroo Lacépède, B.G.É. 1799. Tableau des divisions, sous-divisions, ordres et genres de mammifères. Avec l'indication de toutes les espèces décrites par Buffon, et leur distribution dans chacun des genres par F.M. Daudin. Quadrupèdes. pp. 144-195 in Buffon, G.L.L. (ed.). Histoire Naturelle. Paris : P. Didot l'Aîné et Firmin Didot 14 pp. [6].
Type species:
Kanguroo gigas Lacépède, 1799 by monotypy.
Halmaturus Illiger, J.C.W. 1811. Prodromus Systematis Mammalium et Avium, additis terminis zoographicis utriusque classis, eorumque versione Germanica. Berolini : Sumptibus C. Salfeld xvii 301 pp. [80] [nom. nov. for "Kanguru" [sic] Lacépède, 1799 and Kangurus Geoffroy and Cuvier, 1795].
Kalmaturus Gervais, F.L.P. 1835. Dictionnaire Pittoresque d'Histoire Naturelle et des Phénomènes de la Nature. Vol. 2. [533] [nom. nud., errore pro Halmaturus Illiger, 1811].
Secondary source:
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.
Halmatopus Wagner, J.A. 1841. Bericht über die Leistungen in der Naturgeschichte der Säugethiere während der beiden Jahre 1839 und 1840. Weigmann, Archiv. für Nat. Jahrg. 58 pp. [8] [errore pro Halmaturus Illiger, 1811].
Prionotemnus Stirton, R.A. 1955. Late Tertiary marsupials from South Australia. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 11: 247-268.
Type species:
Prionotemnus palankarinnicus Stirton, 1955 by monotypy.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

Introduction

Based on several studies (Meredith et al., 2008; Phillips et al., 2013) the genus Macropus was split by Jackson & Groves (2015), by raising the subgenera Macropus (Macropus), Macropus (Notamacropus) and Macropus (Osphranter) to genus level. This arrangement was further supported by the results of Celik et al. (2019).

Distribution

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Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Ben Lomond (BEL), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Wet Tropics (WT) ; ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP) ; NSW, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Mallee (MAL), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Murchison (MUR), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), Nullarbor (NUL), Pilbara (PIL), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)