Setonix brachyurus

(Quoy & Gaimard, 1830)

Quokka

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Marsupialia
Superorder : Australidelphia
Order : Diprotodontia
Suborder : Macropodiformes
Superfamily : Macropodoidea
Family : Macropodidae
Subfamily : Macropodinae
Tribe : Setonichini
Genus : Setonix

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

<i>In</i> Dumont d'Urville, Voy...de Astrolabe, Zool., vol. 1(L'Homme, Mamm. Oiseaux), 114

Original name as described

Kangurus brachyurus

Other common names

Short-tailed Pademelon · Short-tailed Wallaby

Type material

MNHN 1990-399

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

"le port du Roi-Georges [= King George Sound], á la Nouvelle-Hollande [= Western Australia]."

Biogeographic realm

Australasia

Country distribution

Australia

IUCN Red List status

Vulnerable

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