Wallaby [1] ( lat. Wallabia ) is a genus of Australian marsupials from the kangaroo family . Includes one living and 2 fossil species.
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 Swamp Wallaby ( Wallabia bicolor ) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Wallabia Trouessart , 1905 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Wallabia bicolor ( Desmarest , 1804) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Classification
- Wallabia bicolor ( Lesson , 1828) - Swamp wallaby is the only living member of the genus. Distributed in east Queensland and New South Wales and southeast South Australia .
- † Wallabia indra (De Vis, 1895) - lived in the Early Pliocene , fossils found in southeastern Queensland (Chinchilla local fauna) [2]
- † Wallabia kitcheneri Flannery, 1989 - lived in the Late Pleistocene , found in the Mammoth Cave in southwestern Western Australia (Mammoth Cave local fauna) [2]
Notes
- ↑ Sokolov V.E. The pagan dictionary of animal names. Mammals Latin, Russian, English, German, French. / edited by Acad. V. E. Sokolova. - M .: Rus. lang., 1984. - S. 25. - 10,000 copies.
- ↑ 1 2 Long, John A. & Archer, Michael. Prehistoric mammals of Australia and New Guinea: one hundred million years of evolution . - UNSW Press, 2002. - P. 166. - ISBN 978-0801872235 .