Species Notamacropus dorsalis (Gray, 1837)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Halmaturus dorsalis 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 (=Namoi Hills, fide Iredale & Troughton (1934)).

  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

• Macropus dorsalis (Gray, 1837). —
  Waterhouse, G.R. 1838. Catalogue of the Mammalia Preserved in the Museum of the Zoological Society of London. London : The Zoological Society of London 68 pp. [67]
• Wallabia dorsalis (Gray, 1837). —
  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 [50]
• Notamacropus dorsalis (Gray, 1837). —
  Jackson, S. & Groves, C. 2015. Taxonomy of Australian Mammals. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing 520 pp. [156] (new combination)
• Macropus (Notamacropus) dorsalis (Gray, 1837). —
  Dawson, L. & Flannery, T. 1985. Taxonomic and phylogenetic status of living and fossil kangaroos and wallabies of the genus Macropus Shaw (Macropodidae: Marsupialia), with a new subgeneric name for the larger wallabies. Australian Journal of Zoology 33: 473-498 [489] (new combination)

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), Desert Uplands (DEU), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

Closed forest, folivore, gregarious, nocturnal, open forest, subtropical, terrestrial.

Extra Ecological Information

Found in areas of thick understorey.

General References

Dawson, T.J., Tierney, P.J. & Ellis, B.A. 1992. The diet of the bridled nailtail wallaby (Onychogalea fraenata). II. Overlap in dietary niche breadth and plant preferences with the black-striped wallaby (Macropus dorsalis) and domestic cattle. Wildlife Research 19: 79-87

Ellis, B.A., Tierney, P.J. & Dawson, T.J. 1992. The diet of the bridled nailtail wallaby (Onychogalea fraenata). I. Site and seasonal influences and dietary overlap with the black-striped wallaby (Macropus dorsalis) and domestic cattle. Wildlife Research 19: 65-78

Evans, M. 1996. Home ranges and movement schedules of sympatric bridled nailtail and black striped wallabies. Wildlife Research 23: 547-556

Heathcote, C.F. 1989. Social behaviour of the black-striped wallaby Macropus dorsalis, in captivity. pp. 625-628 in Grigg, G., Jarman, P. & Hume, I. (eds). Kangaroos, Wallabies and Rat-Kangaroos. Sydney : Australian Mammal Society and Surrey Beatty 835 pp.

Hoolihan, D.W. & Goldizen, A.W. 1998. The grouping dynamics of the black-striped wallaby. Wildlife Research 25: 467-474

Jarman, P.J. 1994. The eating of seedheads by species of Macropodidae. Australian Mammalogy 17: 51-63

Jarman, P.J., Phillips, C.M. & Rabbidge, J.J. 1991. Diets of black-striped wallabies in New South Wales. Wildlife Research 18: 403-412

Johnson, P. 2008. Black-striped Wallaby Macropus dorsalis. pp. 329–330 in van Dyck, S. & Strahan, R. The Mammals of Australia. Third Edition. Sydney : Reed New Holland 887 pp.

Johnson, P.M. & Delean, S. 2002. Development and age estimation of the pouch young of the black-striped wallaby Macropus dorsalis with notes on reproduction. Australian Mammalogy 24: 193-198

Kirkpatrick, T.H. 1995. Black-striped Wallaby Macropus dorsalis. pp. 327-328 in Strahan, R. (ed.). The Mammals of Australia: The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. Sydney : Reed New Holland 756 pp.

Warburton, B. & Sadlier, R.M.F. 1990. Black-striped wallaby Macropus dorsalis (Gray, 1837). 57 in King, C.M. (ed.). The Handbook of New Zealand Mammals. Auckland : Oxford University Press.

Common Name References

ABRS 2001. Census of Australian Vertebrates. Australian Biological Resources Study. (Black-striped Wallaby)

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