- Western Brush Wallaby
Taxobox
name = Western Brush WallabyMSW3 Groves|pages=65]
status = LC
status_system = iucn3.1
status_ref = IUCN2006 | assessors = Australasian Marsupial & Monotreme Specialist Group | year = 1996 | id = 12626 | title = Macropus irma | downloaded = 30 December 2006]
regnum =Animal ia
phylum = Chordata
classis =Mammal ia
infraclassis =Marsupial ia
ordo =Diprotodontia
familia =Macropodidae
genus = "Macropus "
species = "M. irma"
binomial = "Macropus irma"
binomial_authority = (Jourdan, 1837)The Western Brush Wallaby ("Macropus irma"), also known as the Black-gloved Wallaby, is a species of
wallaby found in southwesternWestern Australia . It is listed asnear threatened by theIUCN , and the main threat towards it seems to be predation by the introducedRed Fox ("Vulpes vulpes").cite book|last=Menkhorst|first=Peter|year=2001|title=A Field Guide to the Mammals of Australia|publisher=Oxford University Press|pages=112]The Western Brush Wallaby is a deep grey colour with distinctive white colouring around the face, arms and legs (although it does have black gloves as its alternative common name implies). It is an unusually diurnal
macropod that grazes on grass and other plants.References
External links
* [http://www.deh.gov.au/cgi-bin/abrs/fauna/details.pl?pstrVol=MARSUPIALIA;pstrTaxa=548;pstrChecklistMode=2 Department of Environment and Heritage Species Profiles]
* [http://www.ecu.edu.au/pa/rswa/content/work/journals/PDF/80(2)/80(2)wann.pdf Dietary preferences of the Black-gloved Wallaby and the Western Grey Kangaroo in Whiteman Park, Perth, WA]
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