The red-necked wallaby or Bennett's wallaby is a medium-sized macropod marsupial (wallaby), common in the more temperate and fertile parts of eastern Australia, including Tasmania. Red-necked wallabies have been introduced to several other countries, including New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Ireland, the Isle of Man, France and Germany.
Image: Macropus rufogriseus rufogriseus Bruny
Image: Bennett's Wallaby
Two adult males fighting
A population of albino Bennett's wallabies (N. r. rufogriseus) lives on Bruny Island.
Macropodidae is a family of marsupials that includes kangaroos, wallabies, tree-kangaroos, wallaroos, pademelons, quokkas, and several other groups. These genera are allied to the suborder Macropodiformes, containing other macropods, and are native to the Australian continent, New Guinea and nearby islands.
Macropodidae
A Bennett's wallaby skull
A female quokka with a joey
Procoptodon goliah