Notamacropus greyi (Toolache Wallaby)

[another specialist]

Jul 12, 2008 15:35:07 GMT Peter said:

Amazing to see these images of live Toolache wallaby. Never knew they existed.

There is a copy for sale on amazon.com

But very expensive

www.amazon.com/gp/product/0724344527?tag=openlibr-20

[another specialist]

Conservation Biology in Theory and Practice
By Graeme Caughley, Anne Gunn

[another specialist]

www.easterbilby.com/originsoftheeasterbunny.html

[another specialist]

My own photos taken in the Natural History Museum at Tring - April 30 2009

[RSN]

www.naturanelmondo.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=123722

[surroundx]

Jan 4, 2008 10:48:36 GMT another specialist said:

In the bottom-right hand corner of these two photographs it says 'From film by B. C. Cotton'. I think those still images were taken from this videotape of the last captive animal, a female, which I just discovered exists:

trove.nla.gov.au/work/32127513?q=title%3ASouth+Australian+naturalist.&c=music&versionId=39025582

[Melanie]

Jan 4, 2008 10:51:13 GMT another specialist said:

All above from

The Toolache Wallaby
National Parks and Wildlife Service,
Department of Environment and Planning,
Special Publication,
Number 2.

A book I've had for years just found it.

Also taken from this film:

archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/sama1058/1058-01.htm

[surroundx]

Some more information about the motion picture footage depicting this species. According to the notes accompanying the film the last individual died on 10 July 1939, and not 30 June 1939 as I believe (Robinson & Young, 1983) state:

archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/sama1058/1058-01.htm

[surroundx]

Ogilby, J. Douglas. (1892). Catalogue of Australian Mammals, with Introductory Notes on General Mammalogy. Australian Museum, Sydney: Catalogue No. 16: viii + 142 pp.

[surroundx]

Lucas, Arthur Henry Shakespeare and Le Souëf, William Henry Dudley. (1909). The Animals of Australia: Mammals, Reptiles and Amphibians. Melbourne: Whitcombe and Tombs.

[Sebbe]

A molecular and morphometric assessment of the systematics of the Macropus complex clarifies the tempo and mode of kangaroo evolution.

Kangaroos and wallabies of the Macropus complex include the largest extant marsupials and hopping mammals. They have traditionally been divided among the genus Macropus (with three subgenera: Macropus, Osphranter and Notamacropus) and the monotypic swamp wallaby, Wallabia bicolor. Recent retrotransposon and genome-scale phylogenetic analyses clarify the placement of Wallabia as sister to Notamacropus, with Osphranter and Macropus branching successively deeper. In view of the traditional Macropus concept being paraphyletic, we undertake to resolve the species-level phylogeny and genus-level taxonomy of the Macropus complex. For the first time, we include nuclear and mitochondrial DNA covering all extant species, and the first DNA sequences from the extinct Toolache wallaby (Notamacropus greyi), which we find groups with the black-gloved wallaby (Notamacropus irma). Morphological variation was examined using geometric morphometric methods on three-dimensional surface-scanned skulls. Wallabia skull shape fell close to Notamacropus (or Thylogale when controlling for allometry). We recommend the subgenera Macropus, Osphranter and Notamacropus be elevated to genera, alongside Wallabia, based on comparisons with other established macropodine genera for cranial disparity, ecology and molecular divergence. Our time tree estimates that all four ‘Macropus’ genera diverged close to the Miocene–Pliocene boundary (~6–5 Mya), then diversified coincident with Pliocene expansion of grasslands in Australia.

academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz005/5421215?redirectedFrom=fulltext

[surroundx]

I've discovered that there is a second film of the Toolache wallaby. I asked for it to be digitised in March and that has now been done. Just waiting to hear back from the copyright owners about making it public.

[Melanie]

Another photograph

alchetron.com/Toolache-wallaby

an another one

www.pinterest.ru/pin/651896114799806676/

[koeiyabe]

"Atlas of Extinct Animals (in Japanese)" by Radek Maly (2022)

[redpinnipedgamer]

www.gbif.org/occurrence/gallery?taxon_key=5219961