Nail-tail wallaby

Nail-tail wallabies
Crescent Nail-tail Wallaby
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Infraclass:	Marsupialia
Order:	Diprotodontia
Suborder:	Macropodiformes
Family:	Macropodidae
Subfamily:	Macropodinae
Genus:	Onychogalea Gray, 1841
Type species
Macropus unguifer Gould, 1841
Species
O. fraenata †O. lunata O. unguifera

The nail-tail wallabies (genus Onychogalea) are three species of macropod found in Australia. They are distinguished by a horny spur at the end of their tail, and are now generally very rare. Only one species (the Northern Nail-tail Wallaby) has survived European settlement unscathed: the Crescent Nail-tail is extinct, and the Bridled Nail-tail is seriously endangered. Nail-tail wallabies are smaller than many other wallabies.^[1]

Species

There are three species:^[2]

• Bridled Nail-tail Wallaby, Onychogalea fraenata
• † Crescent Nail-tail Wallaby, Onychogalea lunata
• Northern Nail-tail Wallaby, Onychogalea unguifera

References

1. ^ Menkhorst, Peter (2001). A Field Guide to the Mammals of Australia. Oxford University Press. p. 124. 
2. ^ Groves, C. (2005). Wilson, D. E., & Reeder, D. M, eds. ed. Mammal Species of the World (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 63. OCLC 62265494. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3. 

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