Species Notamacropus parryi (Bennett, 1835)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Macropus parryi Bennett, E.T. 1835. On a new species of kangaroo. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1834: 151-152 [151 pl. 27].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 55.12.24.61 ♀ adult skin & damaged skull without mandible, Stroud, NSW.
• Halmaturus parryi pallida Gray, J.E. 1837. Description of some new or little known Mammalia, principally in the British Museum Collection. Magazine of Natural History ns 1: 577-587 [Date published Nov. 1837: publication date established from 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]] [583].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, unknown locality, but described as 'Swan River Wallaroo' (error =NSW).

  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.

Generic Combinations

• Notamacropus parryi (Bennett, 1835). —
  Jackson, S. & Groves, C. 2015. Taxonomy of Australian Mammals. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing 520 pp. [159]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Coastal, folivore, gregarious, nocturnal, open forest, subtropical, terrestrial, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

In areas with a grass understorey, grazer.

General References

Baker, M.L., Canfield, P.J., Gemmell, R.T., Spencer, P.B.S. & Agar, N.S. 1995. Erythrocyte metabolism in the koala, the common brushtail possum and the whiptail wallaby. Comparative Haematology International 5: 163-169

Bell, H.M. 1973. The ecology of three macropod marsupial species in an open forest and savannah woodland in north Queensland, Australia. Mammalia 37: 527-544

Johnson, P.M. 1995. Whiptail Wallaby Macropus parryi. pp. 344-346 in Strahan, R. (ed.). The Mammals of Australia: The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. Sydney : Reed New Holland 756 pp.

Johnson, P.M. 1998. Reproduction of the whiptail wallaby, Macropus parryi Bennett (Marsupialia: Macropodidae), in captivity with age estimation of the pouch young. Wildlife Research 25: 635-641

Johnson, P.M. & Delean, J.S.C. 1998. Sex determination of the whiptail wallaby Macropus parryi using adult skulls. Australian Mammalogy 20: 425-426

Kaufmann, J.H. 1974. Social ethology of the whiptail wallaby, Macropus parryi, in northeastern New South Wales. Animal Behaviour 22: 281-369

Maynes, G.M. 1973. Aspects of reproduction in the whiptail wallaby, Macropus parryi. The Australian Zoologist 18: 43-46

Southwell, C. & Fletcher, M. 1990. The use of roads and tracks as transect routes for surveying the abundance of whiptail wallabies, Macropus parryi (Marsupialia: Macropodidae). Australian Mammalogy 13: 223-226

Southwell, C.J., Weaver, K.E., Cairns, S.C., et al. 1995. Abundance of macropods in north-eastern New South Wales, and the logistics of broad-scale ground surveys. Wildlife Research 22: 757-766

Southwell, C.J. & Fletcher, M.S. 1988. Diurnal and nocturnal habitat utilisation by the whiptail wallaby, Macropus parryi. Australian Wildlife Research 15: 595-603

Common Name References

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

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