The red-necked wallaby, also known as Bennett's wallaby, is a medium-sized macropod marsupial common across the more temperate and fertile parts of eastern Australia, including Tasmania. It has also been introduced to several other countries, including New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Ireland, the Isle of Man, France and Germany, where feral populations now persist outside its native range.
Facts
Classification
System (Realm) Relationship to PeopleInvasive or Introduced Species 2 Living or ExtinctDerived from this species' own Conservation Status: this atlas's IUCN category list has no Extinct value, so a set conservation-status is itself evidence of living status (w-bfill-g5-0924 browse backfill). Partially Attested
Population Estimatefigure covers only the Isle of Man introduced population surveyed in the Ballaugh Curragh area, not the species total Scientific NameNotamacropus rufogriseus 2 Conservation Status Connections
In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: Australia, found in there.
Sources
1. Red-necked wallaby (Wikipedia)
common in the more temperate and fertile parts of eastern AustraliaView the Source 2. Red-necked wallaby, Wikipedia
Description
The red-necked wallaby or Bennett's wallaby (Notamacropus rufogriseus)
Conservation status infobox
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Introductions to other countries, Isle of Man
Two nocturnal surveys, carried out across 400 hectares of the Ballaugh Curragh over two consecutive nights, gave an average number of 568 wallabies with a density of 140 per km2.
- introduced to several other countries, including New Zealand...
View the Source3. GBIF Species API
Wikidata: Red-necked Wallaby
Wikidata Q249024, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source Catalogue of Life
Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of LifeChild Taxon Of: DiprotodontiaView the Source Reader Challenges (0)
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