Macropodini

Yellow-footed rock wallaby Petrogale xanthopus, copyright Talexbikes.

Belongs within: Macropodinae.
Contains: Macropus.

The Macropodini is a clade including the 'true' wallabies and kangaroos. Members of this clade have high-crowned molars, reflecting a change in habit to grazing.

<==Macropodini
    |  i. s.: Baringa Flannery & Hann 1984 LA02
    |           `--*B. nelsonensis Flannery & Hann 1984 LA02
    |--+--Lagorchestes CB-E04
    |  |    |--L. asomatus Finlayson 1943 R64
    |  |    |--L. conspicillatus CB-E04
    |  |    |--L. hirsutus CB-E04
    |  |    `--L. leporides CB-E04
    |  `--+--Setonix brachyurus (Quoy & Gaimard 1830) CB-E04, BD-D09
    |     `--+--Onychogalea CB-E04
    |        |    |--O. unguifera CB-E04
    |        |    `--+--O. fraenata CB-E04
    |        |       `--O. lunata CB-E04
    |        `--+--Macropus CB-E04
    |           |--Kurrabi Flannery & Archer 1984 LA02
    |           |    |--*K. mahoneyi Flannery & Archer 1984 LA02
    |           |    |--K. merriwaensis Flannery & Archer 1984 LA02
    |           |    `--K. pelchenorum Flannery, Rich et al. 1992 LA02
    |           `--Wallabia Trouessart 1905 CB-E04, LA02
    |                |--*W. bicolor (Desmarest 1804) LA02 [=Protemnodon bicolor S61; incl. Macropus ualabatus S61]
    |                |--W. eugenii TL70
    |                |--W. indra (De Vis 1895) LA02
    |                `--W. kitcheneri Flannery 1989 LA02
    `--+--Thylogale Gray 1837 LA02
       |    |  i. s.: T. eugenii R64 [=Protemnodon eugenii S61]
       |    |           |--T. e. eugenii R64
       |    |           `--T. e. decres Troughton 1941 R64
       |    |--*T. billardieri (Desmarest 1822) LA02, CB-E04 [=Protemnodon billardierii S61]
       |    |--T. ignis Flannery, Rich et al. 1992 LA02
       |    |--T. christenseni Hope 1981 LA02
       |    `--+--T. brunii CB-E04
       |       `--+--T. stigmatica CB-E04
       |          `--T. thetis CB-E04
       `--Petrogale CB-E04
            |  i. s.: P. herberti Thomas 1926 CO03
            |         P. sharmani COA02
            |--+--P. brachyotis CB-E04
            |  `--+--P. burbidgei CB-E04
            |     `--P. concinna CB-E04 [=Peradorcas concinna BP87]
            `--+--P. lateralis Gould 1842 CB-E04, S11
               |--P. persephone CB-E04
               |--P. rothschildi CB-E04
               |--P. xanthopus CB-E04
               `--+--P. inornata CB-E04
                  |--P. penicillata CB-E04
                  |    |--P. p. penicillata S61
                  |    `--P. p. pearsoni S61
                  `--+--P. assimilis CB-E04
                     `--P. godmani CB-E04

*Type species of generic name indicated

REFERENCES

[BD-D09] Beveridge, I. & M.-C. Durette-Desset. 2009. A new species of the nematode genus Copemania (Nematoda: Trichostrongylida), parasitic in the western quoll, Dasyurus geoffroii and short-nosed bandicoot, Isoodon obesulus from south-western Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 25 (3): 345-349.

[BP87] Burton, J. A., & B. Pearson. 1987. Collins Guide to the Rare Mammals of the World. Collins: London.

[CO03] Cameron, S. L., & P. J. O’Donoghue. 2003. Trichostome ciliates from Australian marsupials. II. Polycosta gen. nov. (Litostomatea: Polycostidae fam. nov.) European Journal of Protistology 39: 83-99.

[COA02] Cameron, S. L., P. J. O’Donoghue & R. D. Adlard. 2002. Species diversity within Macropodinium (Litostomatea: Trichostomatia): endosymbiotic ciliates from Australian macropodid marsupials. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 48 (1): 49-69.

[CB-E04] Cardillo, M., O. R. P. Bininda-Emonds, E. Boakes & A. Purvis. 2004. A species-level phylogenetic supertree of marsupials. Journal of Zoology 264: 11-31.

[LA02] Long, J., M. Archer, T. Flannery & S. Hand. 2002. Prehistoric Mammals of Australia and New Guinea: One Hundred Million Years of Evolution. University of New South Wales Press: Sydney.

[R64] Ride, W. D. L. 1964. A list of mammals described from Australia between the years 1933 and 1963 (comprising newly proposed names and additions to the Australian faunal list). Australian Mammal Society Bulletin 7 (Suppl.): 1-15.

[S61] Sharman, G. B. 1961. The mitotic chromosomes of marsupials and their bearing on taxonomy and phylogeny. Australian Journal of Zoology 9 (1): 38-60.

[S11] Smales, L. R. 2011. New species and new locality records of the nematode genus Labiosimplex (Strongylida: Chabertiidae) from macropodid marsupials in Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 26 (2): 183-190.

[TL70] Turnbull, W. D. & E. L. Lundelius, Jr. 1970. The Hamilton fauna: a Late Pliocene mammalian fauna from the Grange Burn, Victoria, Australia. Fieldiana Geology 19: 1-163.