Brown's Pademelon

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Brown's Pademelon[1]
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Diprotodontia
Family: Macropodidae
Genus: Thylogale
Species: T. browni
Binomial name
Thylogale browni
(Ramsay, 1877)

Brown's Pademelon (Thylogale browni) is a species of marsupial in the Macropodidae family. It is found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, dry savanna, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, and subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland. It is threatened by habitat loss.[2]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Groves, Colin (16 November 2005). in Wilson, D. E., and Reeder, D. M. (eds): Mammal Species of the World, 3rd edition, Johns Hopkins University Press, 69. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. 
  2. ^ a b Australasian Marsupial & Monotreme Specialist Group (1996). Thylogale browni. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 2007-07-29.
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