Pretty-faced Wallaby

Pretty-faced Wallaby

Taxobox
name = Pretty-faced WallabyMSW3 Groves|pages=65]
status = LC
status_system = iucn3.1
status_ref = IUCN2006 | assessors = Australasian Marsupial & Monotreme Specialist Group | year = 1996 | id = 40564 | title = Macropus parryi | downloaded = 30 December 2006]


regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
infraclassis = Marsupialia
ordo = Diprotodontia
familia = Macropodidae
genus = "Macropus"
species = "M. parryi"
binomial = "Macropus parryi"
binomial_authority = Bennett, 1835

The Pretty-faced Wallaby ("Macropus parryi"), also known as the Whiptail Wallaby, is a species of wallaby found in eastern Australia. It is locally common from Cooktown in Queensland to near Grafton in New South Wales.cite book|last=Menkhorst|first=Peter|year=2001|title=A Field Guide to the Mammals of Australia|publisher=Oxford University Press|pages=110]

The Pretty-faced Wallaby is distinguished by its paler colouring and white stripe under its face. It is a sociable species, sometimes coming together in mobs of up to 50. It is neither diurnal nor nocturnal, being active at any time of day or night. The Pretty-faced Wallaby feeds on grasses and ferns.

References

External links

* [http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Macropus_parryi.html Whiptail Wallaby on Animal Diversity Web]
* [http://www.geocities.com/ozwildlife/wallaby.html Distribution map and picture]


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