Nail-tail wallaby

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Nail-tail wallabies
Crescent Nail-tail Wallaby
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Infraclass: Marsupialia
Order: Diprotodontia
Suborder: Macropodiformes
Family: Macropodidae
Subfamily: Macropodinae
Genus: Onychogalea
Gray, 1841
Species

The nail-tail wallabies (genus Onychogalea) are three species of macropod found in Australia. They are distinguished by a horny spur at the end of their tail, and are now generally very rare. Only one species (the Northern Nail-tail Wallaby) has survived European settlement unscathed: the Crescent Nail-tail is extinct, and the Bridled Nail-tail is seriously endangered. Nail-tail wallabies are smaller than many other wallabies.[1]

There are three species:[2]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Menkhorst, Peter (2001). A Field Guide to the Mammals of Australia. Oxford University Press, 124. 
  2. ^ Groves, Colin (16 November 2005). in Wilson, D. E., and Reeder, D. M. (eds): Mammal Species of the World, 3rd edition, Johns Hopkins University Press, 63. ISBN 0-801-88221-4.