Species profile—Osphranter rufus (red kangaroo)
Classification
Animalia (animals) → Mammalia (mammals) → Macropodidae (wallabies, kangaroos and tree-kangaroos) → Osphranter rufus (red kangaroo)
Sighting data
Species details
- Kingdom
- Animalia (animals)
- Class
- Mammalia (mammals)
- Family
- Macropodidae (wallabies, kangaroos and tree-kangaroos)
- Scientific name
- Osphranter rufus (Desmarest, 1822)
- Common name
- red kangaroo
- Type reference
- Desmarest, A.G. 1822. Mammologie ou description des especes de mammiferes part 2 in, Encyclopedie Methodique (Dictionnaire Encyclopedique Methodique.) Par ordre de Matieres. Suppl. 2. Paris : Agasse. [541].
- WildNet taxon ID
- 905
- Synonym(s)
- Macropus rufus
- Alternate name(s)
- plains kangaroo
blue flyer - Nature Conservation Act 1992 (NCA) status
- Least concern
- Conservation significant
- No
- Endemicity
- Native
- Pest status
- Agricultural Pest
- Species environment
- Terrestrial
Other resources
Data source
This profile data is sourced from the QLD Wildlife Data API using the Get species by ID function used under CC-By 4.0.
https://apps.des.qld.gov.au/species/?op=getspeciesbyid&taxonid=905.
This information is sourced from the WildNet database managed by the Queensland Department of Environment and Science.
