Macropus giganteus Shaw, 1790

Colin P. Groves, 1993, Order Diprotodontia, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 45-62 : 54

Macropus giganteus Shaw, 1790 . Nat. Mise., 1, pl. 33 (text).

TYPE LOCALITY: Australia, Queensland, Cooktown (= "New Holland"), King's Plains .

DISTRIBUTION: E and C Queensland, Victoria, New South Wales, SE South Australia, and Tasmania ( Australia).

STATUS: U.S. ESA - Endangered as M. g. tasmaniensis ; otherwise Threatened; yet abundant throughout eastern Australia.

SYNONYMS: griseofuscus, labiatus, major , tasmaniensis , tridactylus .

COMMENTS: Subgenus Macropus . Opinion 760 of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (1966) placed this name on the Official List of Specific Names in Zoology, see Calaby et al. (1963) for discussion. Revised by Kirsch and Poole (1972) who discussed specific limits and the subspecies included in this taxon. See Poole (1982, Mammalian Species, 187).