Subspecies Notamacropus rufogriseus rufogriseus (Desmarest, 1817)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Kangurus rufogriseus Desmarest, A.G. 1817. Nouveau Dictionnaire d'Histoire Naturelle: appliquée aux arts, à l'agriculture, à l'économie rurale et domestique, à la médecine etc. Par une société de naturalistes et d'agriculteurs. Nouv. Édn presqu' entièrement refondue et considérablement augmentée. Paris : Deterville Vol. 17. [36] [ex Geoffroy ms, see Iredale, T. & Troughton, E. le G. 1934. A check-list of the mammals recorded from Australia. Mem. Aust. Mus. 6: i–xii 1–122].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP Nouv. Cat. Gal. Nº 33 ♀ mounted skin & skull, New Holland (=King Is., Bass Strait).

  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.

  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.
• Macropus (Halmaturus) fruticus Ogilby, W. 1838. Observations upon some recent communications of Mr. J.E. Gray, of the British Museum, to the Annals of Natural History; with descriptions of two new kangaroos from Van Diemen's Land. Annals of Natural History 1: 216-221 [Published in 1 May 1838 and republished in Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. in July 1838] [219].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown (lost), TAS.

Generic Combinations

• Notamacropus rufogriseus rufogriseus (Desmarest, 1817).

Distribution

States

Tasmania

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Tas: Ben Lomond (BEL), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE)

Ecological Descriptors

Closed heath, crepuscular, folivore, nocturnal, open forest, terrestrial.

History of changes