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| Western grey kangaroo[1] | |
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| Male | |
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| Female with joey Both at the Hanson Bay on Kangaroo Island, SA | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
| Order: | Diprotodontia |
| Family: | Macropodidae |
| Genus: | Macropus |
| Species: | M. fuliginosus
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| Binomial name | |
| Macropus fuliginosus Desmarest, 1817
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| Western grey kangaroo range | |
The western grey kangaroo (Macropus fuliginosus), also referred to as a western grey giant kangaroo, black-faced kangaroo, mallee kangaroo, sooty kangaroo and (when referring to the Kangaroo Island subspecies) Kangaroo Island grey kangaroo,[4] is a large and very common kangaroo found across almost the entire southern part of Australia, from just south of Shark Bay through coastal Western Australia and South Australia, into western Victoria, and in the entire Murray–Darling basin in New South Wales and Queensland.
- ^ Groves, C. P. (2005). "Order Diprotodontia". In Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 64. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
- ^ Burbidge, A.; Menkhorst, P.; Ellis, M.; Copley, P. (2016). "Macropus fuliginosus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T40563A21953972. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T40563A21953972.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
- ^ https://ecos.fws.gov/ecp0/profile/speciesProfile?sId=6981 [dead link]
- ^ "Western grey kangaroo (Macropus fuliginosus)". ARKive. Bristol, United Kingdom: Wildscreen. 2015. Archived from the original on 2013-12-22. Retrieved 2013-12-13.