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Red-necked Wallaby (Macropus rufogriseus)

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Class: Mammalia
Family: Macropodidae
Common Name: Red-necked Wallaby
Genus: Macropus
Species Name: rufogriseus

About The Red-necked Wallaby

This species is endemic to Australia where it ranges through the south-east of the country. It is present on Tasmania, King Island, and on the Furneaux Group.

Rights Holder: International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
Bibliographic Citation: McKenzie, N., Menkhorst, P. & Lunney, D. 2008. Macropus rufogriseus. In: IUCN 2014 . IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.1 . <www.iucnredlist.org>

Trips Where Observed

Eastern Australia

Member Lifelists

Australasia
World

Sites Where Observed

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Date
Notes
11/22/2012
Not sure if this is the species that I saw. There were two of them in the brush next to the river. Quite redder and smaller than the kangaroos that I saw there.

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