Subspecies Notamacropus agilis agilis (Gould, 1842)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Halmaturus agilis Gould, J. 1842. Descriptions of four new species of kangaroos. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1841: 80-83 [Mar. 1842; 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] [81].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 44.2.15.3 & 44.2.15.2 ♂ adult skin (44.2.15.3) & skull without mandible (44.2.15.2), Port Essington, NT.
• Halmaturus binoe Gould, J. 1842. On two new species of kangaroo (Petrogale concinna and Halmaturus binoe). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1842: 57-58 [58] [as Halmaturus Binoë].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 46.44.21 ♀ skin & skull (not BMNH 44.2.15.10), Port Essington; the claim that the locality is in fact Wallabi Is., Houtman's Abrolhos, WA is an error (Ride, W.D.L., pers. comm.).
• Halmaturus siva De Vis, C.W. 1895. A review of the fossil jaws of the Macropodidae in the Queensland Museum. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 10: 75-133 [113].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM F2926, Darling Downs, QLD.

  Secondary source:

   Bartholomai, A. 1975. The genus Macropus Shaw (Marsupialia: Macropodidae) in the Cainozoic deposits of Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 17: 195-235.
• Macropus agilis aurescens Schwarz, E. 1910. On the wallabies usually referred to Macropus agilis, Gould. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 5: 164-166 [166].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1900.6.1 M adult skin and skull, Fitzroy River, WA.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Thomas, O. 1888. Catalogue of the Marsupialia and Monotremata in the Collection of the British Museum (Natural History). London : British Museum xiii 401 pp. 28 pls. [3 Nov. 1888] [42]
• Schwarz, E. 1910. On the wallabies usually referred to Macropus agilis, Gould. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 5: 164-166 [164]

Generic Combinations

• Macropus agilis agilis (Gould, 1842).
• Notamacropus agilis agilis (Gould, 1842).

Distribution

States

Northern Territory

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Central Arnhem (CA), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Sturt Plateau (STU), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Ecological Descriptors

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

History of changes