Thylogale billardierii (Diprotodontia: Macropodidae)
Author
Rose, Randolph W.
School of Biological Sciences, University of Tasmania, Private Bag 55, Sandy Bay, Tasmania 7001, Australia
randy.rose@utas.edu
Author
Rose, Robert K.
Department of Biological Sciences, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA 23529 - 0266, USA
brose@odu.edu
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Mammalian Species
2018
2018-09-25
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mspecies/sey012
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10.1093/mspecies/sey012
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1545-1410
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Thylogale
Gray, 1837
Thylogale
:
Gray, 1837:583
. Part; subgenus of
Halmaturus
.
Type
species
Halmaturus
[
(
Thylogale
)
]
eugenii
Gray, 1837
(=
Halmaturus thetis
Lesson, 1827
) by monotypy.
CONTEXT AND CONTENT. Order
Diprotodontia
, superfamily
Macropodoidea
,family
Macropodidae
, subfamily
Macropodinae
. The genus
Thylogale
includes the following 6 living species (
Calaby and Richardson 1988
;
Groves 1993
):
Thylogale browni
,
T. brunii
,
T. calabyi
,
T. stigmatica
, and
T. thetis
. A key to species of
Thylogale
(derived from
LeSouef et al. 1926
;
Flannery 1992
,
1995
;
Menkhorst and Knight 2001
) follows:
1. Belly fur white to the roots. Distribution: Aru, Kei, other islands, and southern
Papua New Guinea
…………… … … … … … … … … … … … … … … …. …
T. b r u n i i
Belly fur gray, orange, cream, other………………………2
2. Neck, shoulders, and forehead rich rufousred, belly fur cream, no cheek- or hip-stripes. Distribution: coastal rain- and wet sclerophyll forests from central
Queensland
to central
New South Wales
………………………......…………..……
T. thetis
Neck and shoulders gray or brown…………………..……3
3. White cheek-stripe and buff hip-stripe, reddish legs. Distribution: tip of Cape York, Queensland to Tamworth, New South Wales;
Papua New Guinea
south of Fly River ………………………...……………...……
T. stigmatica
Lacks both cheek- and hip-stripes………………...………4
4. Belly fur orange to rufous-red, no facial or hip markings. Distribution: now restricted to
Tasmania
……………… …………………………………...…..……
T. billardierii
Fig. 1.
—Adult
Thylogale billardierii
. Photograph by Murray Lord used with permission.
Belly fur gray…………………………………..…………5
5. Gray belly fur tipped with yellow, densely furred tail, small body size, well-marked hip-stripe, axils of limbs with small patches of bare skin. Distribution: alpine zone of eastern
Papua New Guinea
………………………...………………
T. calabyi
Gray belly fur without yellow fringe, no hip-stripe, large patches of bare skin in axils of limbs. Distribution: northern
Papua New Guinea
and Northeastern IrianJaya………………….………………
T. browni