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Macropus fuliginosus (western grey kangaroo)
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Macropus fuliginosus (western grey kangaroo)
Date 1863
Source "Mammals of Australia", Vol. II Plate 5
http://www.museum.vic.gov.au/bioinformatics/mammals/images/Mac_fuli.htm
Author John Gould (1804–1881)
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Macropus_fuliginosus_2_Gould.jpg
The western grey kangaroo (Macropus fuliginosus or Macropus fuliginosus), also referred to as a western grey giant kangaroo, black-faced kangaroo, mallee kangaroo, sooty kangaroo and (when referring to the Kangaroo Island subspecies) Kangaroo Island grey kangaroo, is a large and very common kangaroo found across almost the entire southern part of Australia, from just south of Shark Bay through coastal Western Australia and South Australia, into western Victoria, and in the entire Murray–Darling basin in New South Wales and Queensland. The western grey kangaroo is one of the largest macropods in Australia.
Order: Diprotodontia
Family: Macropodidae
Genus: Macropus
Species: M. fuliginosus
Binomial name
Macropus fuliginosus Desmarest, 1817 |
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