Parma Wallaby
White-throated Wallaby
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Fast Facts
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Classification
- Species
- parma
- Genus
- Macropus
- Family
- Macropodidae
- Order
- Diprotodontia
- Class
- Mammalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
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- Size Range
- Up to 52.8 cm
Grey-brown with a white throat and chest, pale grey belly and a dark dorsal stripe running from the head to the middle of the back.
Identification
A small grey-brown wallaby, with a white throat and chest, pale grey belly and a dark dorsal stripe running from the head to the middle of the back. Pale cheek stripe and, frequently, a white tip to the tail.
Habitat
Wet sclerophyll forest with dense understory, occasionally also in rainforest and dry sclerophyll forest.
Distribution
Eastern Australia.
Feeding and diet
A solitary, nocturnal species that spends the day resting in dense vegetation. It emerges in the evening, utilising well-established runways, to feed at night on grasses and herbs in more open areas.
Breeding behaviours
It breeds throughout the year. A single young is born after about 35 days gestation and attaches to one of four teats in the mother’s pouch, where it spends the next 7 months. Sexual maturity is reached at 12-24 months.
Conservation status
A rare and cryptic species with a patchy distribution. Populations in the Illawarra region are now extinct.
