#0230 · 🦊 mammals

Swamp Wallaby

🇳🇱 Moeraswallabie ·Wallabia bicolor

LCleast concern 🦊 Mammals 📍 outside Europe

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what is it?

The swamp wallaby ( Wallabia bicolor ) is a small macropod marsupial of eastern Australia. This wallaby is also commonly known as the black wallaby , with other names including black-tailed wallaby , fern wallaby , black pademelon , stinker (in Queensland), and black stinker (in New South Wales) on account of its characteristic swampy odour. The swamp wallaby is the only living member of the genus Wallabia .

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 22,165iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
22,165 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest in 1803 (223 years ago).