Subspecies Osphranter robustus woodwardi (Thomas, 1901)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Macropus robustus woodwardi Thomas, O. 1901. On some kangaroos and bandicoots from Barrow Island, North-west Australia, and the adjoining mainland. Novitates Zoologicae 8: 394-396 [395].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 0.6.1.1 ♂ adult skin & skull, Grant Range, near Fitzroy River, WA.
• Macropus robustus bracteator Thomas, O. 1911. A new kangaroo from the Northern Territory of Western Australia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 7: 609-610 [609].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 10.12.25.8 ♂ skin & skull, McClintock Range, east Kimberly, WA.

Generic Combinations

• Osphranter robustus woodwardi (Thomas, 1901). —
  Richardson, B.J. & Sharman, G.B. 1976. Biochemical and morphological observations on the wallaroos (Macropodidae: Marsupialia) with a suggested new taxonomy. Journal of Zoology, London 179: 499-513

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Dampierland (DL), Northern Kimberley (NK), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Ecological Descriptors

Cave dweller, crepuscular, desert sand dunes, folivore, hummock grassland, low woodland, nocturnal, open forest, subtropical, tall shrubland, terrestrial, tussock grassland, woodland.

History of changes