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
Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums (OZCAM) Atlas of Living Australia
Data source
This profile data is sourced from the QLD Wildlife Data API using the Get species by ID function used under CC-By 4.0https://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.
