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Taxon: Genus Macropus Shaw, 1790 - wallabies, wallaroos, and kangaroos (mammal)
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Authorship

Original name Shaw, 1790:pl. 33.
Original rank
Original spelling

Types

Type ofMacropoda (Order) Illiger, 1811 Ref: E.R. Lankester, 1877: 453. [inferred]
Type ofMacropodinae (Subfamily) Gray, 1821
Nominotypical taxon [ICZN]Macropus (Subgenus) Shaw, 1790

Synonyms

Synonymous nameHalmaturus (Genus) Illiger, 1811 Ref: D.E. Wilson & D.M. Reeder (eds.), 1993
Synonymous nameKangurus (Genus) Geoffroy & Cuvier, 1795 Ref: D.E. Wilson & D.M. Reeder (eds.), 1993
Synonymous nameProtemnodon (Genus) Owen, 1873 Ref: G.B. Corbet & J.E. Hill, 1991
IncludingDendrodorcopsis (Genus) Rothschild, 1903 Ref: D.E. Wilson & D.M. Reeder (eds.), 1993
IncludingMegaleia (Genus) Gistel, 1848 Ref: C.P. Groves, 2005: 63.

Vernacular Names (Dutch)

Full namereuzenkangoeroes Ref: B. Grzimek (ed.), 1973-1975

Vernacular Names (English)

Full namewallabies, wallaroos, and kangaroos
kangaroos, wallabies
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