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western grey kangaroo
Sign in to saveAlso known as Macropus fuliginosus, western gray kangaroo, black-faced kangaroo, mallee kangaroo, sooty kangaroo, western grey giant kangaroo
species of mammal
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Vinony's link graph records 340 inbound references to western grey kangaroo, and connects out to Australia, Paris and Animalia.
It is catalogued under topics including IUCN Red List least concern species, Macropods and Mammals described in 1817.
Vinony links it to 38 Wikipedia language editions.
Species
クロカンガルー（英語：Western Grey Kangaroo、Macropus fuliginosus)は双前歯目カンガルー科カンガルー属に属する有袋類の一種である。オーストラリア南部に広く分布し、体高が約130cmと大型のカンガルーであり、体色は淡い灰色から茶色で、メスよりもオスの方が大きい。
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Image
- Bramera Cemetery Kangaroos-1 (14987013563).jpg
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- taxon rank
- species
- IUCN conservation status
- Least Concern
- taxon name
- Macropus fuliginosus
- Commons category
- Macropus fuliginosus
- Commons gallery
- Macropus fuliginosus
- taxon common name
- canguru buxu occidental
- endemic to
- Australia
- longest observed lifespan
- 23.2
- sequenced genome URL
- www.dnazoo.org/assemblies/Macropus_fuliginosus
- taxon author citation
- (Desmarest, 1817)
- short name
- M. fuliginosus
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Encyclopedic overview
The western grey kangaroo (Macropus fuliginosus), also referred to as a western grey giant kangaroo, black-faced kangaroo, mallee kangaroo, sooty kangaroo and (when referring to the Kangaroo Island subspecies) Kangaroo Island grey kangaroo, is a large and very common kangaroo found across almost the entire southern part of Australia, from just south of Shark Bay through coastal Western Australia and South Australia, into western Victoria, and in the entire Murray–Darling basin in New South Wales and Queensland.
Taxonomy
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