Species profile—Macropus fuliginosus (western grey kangaroo)
Classification
Animalia (animals) → Mammalia (mammals) → Macropodidae (wallabies, kangaroos and tree-kangaroos) → Macropus fuliginosus (western grey kangaroo)
Sighting data
Species details
- Kingdom
- Animalia (animals)
- Class
- Mammalia (mammals)
- Family
- Macropodidae (wallabies, kangaroos and tree-kangaroos)
- Scientific name
- Macropus fuliginosus (Desmarest, 1817)
- Common name
- western grey kangaroo
- Type reference
- Desmarest, A.G. (1817). Nouveau Dictionnaire d'Histoire Naturelle: appliquee aux arts, a l'agriculture, a l'economie rurale et domestique, a la medecine etc. Par une societe de naturalistes et d'agriculteurs. Nouv. edn presqu' entierement refondue et considerablement augmentee. Paris : Deterville Vol. 17.
- WildNet taxon ID
- 915
- Nature Conservation Act 1992 (NCA) status
- Least concern
- Conservation significant
- No
- Endemicity
- Native
- Pest status
- Nil
- 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=915.
This information is sourced from the WildNet database managed by the Queensland Department of Environment and Science.
