Notamacropus eugenii eugenii (Desmarest, 1817:38)
Tammar wallaby, Tammar, Tamar wallaby, Eugene Island kangaroo, Kangaroo Island wallaby (Wood Jones, 1923:66,67), Scrub wallaby (Wood Jones, 1924:235), Dama wallaby (Wood Jones, 1924:235), Dama pademelon (Wood Jones, 1924:235), wadla (Kaurna (Adelaide); Wyatt, 1879), wadlha (Kaurna (Adelaide), Narunga & Ngadjuri; Tunbridge, 1991:27), yumbulla (Barngarla (Eyre Peninsula); Schürmann, 1844), yumbala (Barngarla (Eyre Peninsula); Tunbridge, 1991:28,61)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Kangurus Eugenii Desmarest, 1817:38; Thylogale eugenii (Desmarest, 1817:38); Macropus Eugenii (Desmarest, 1817:38); Macropus eugenii eugenii (Desmarest, 1817:38); Thylogale eugenii decres Troughton, 1941:194
The subspecies decres may be valid (Jackson & Groves, 2015:157). The introduced population on Kawau island in New Zealand may represent the introduction of a now otherwise extinct (and undescribed) taxon from Australia (Taylor & Cooper, 1999; Jackson & Groves, 2015:157).
Conservation Status
Rediscovered in 1964
IUCN RedList status: Least Concern
Distribution
South Australia (mainland)
Type locality: "St Peter's Isl., Nuyt's Arch., S.A. (as île Eugene, Josephine Arch.)" (Calaby & Richardson, 1988:65)
Type locality (decres): "Kangaroo Island, S.A." (Calaby & Richardson, 1988:66)
Anatomy & Morphology
Biology & Ecology
"Ecology: temperate, terrestrial, territorial, nocturnal, folivore, open heath, open forest, open scrub, woodland."
(Calaby & Richardson, 1988:66)
Hypodigm
"Type data: status unknown, whereabouts unknown" (Calaby & Richardson, 1988:65)
Syntypes (decres):
AM M2820 (male, young adult; skin & skull) (Calaby & Richardson, 1988:66)
AM M2821 (male, young adult; skin & damaged skull) (Calaby & Richardson, 1988:66)
AM M5322 (adult female; skin & skull) (Calaby & Richardson, 1988:66)
AM S1808 (male, young adult; skull) (Calaby & Richardson, 1988:66)
AM S1809 (male, young adult; skull) (Calaby & Richardson, 1988:66)
Other specimens:
SAM M4692 (Tunbridge, 1991:13)
Media
References
Original scientific description:
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