Onychogalea lunata

– Extinct

Taxonomy

Kingdom:

ANIMALIA

Phylum:

CHORDATA

Class:

MAMMALIA

Order:

DIPROTODONTIA

Family:

MACROPODIDAE

Scientific Name:

Onychogalea lunata

Species Authority:

(Gould, 1841)

Common Name/s:

English	—	CRESCENT NAIL-TAILED WALLABY, WURRUNG
French	—	ONYCHOGALE CROISSANT, WALLABY À QUEUE CORNÉE
Spanish	—	CANGURO RABIPELADO OCCIDENTAL

Assessment Information

Red List Category & Criteria:

EX ver 2.3 (1994)

Year Assessed:

1996

Annotations:

Needs updating

Assessor/s:

Australasian Marsupial & Monotreme Specialist Group

Justification:

The latest reliable records of this species were from Central Australia in the early 1960’s.

History:

1965	-	"Status inadequately known-survey required or data sought" (Scott 1965)
1982	-	Extinct (Thornback and Jenkins 1982)
1986	-	Extinct (IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre 1986)
1988	-	Extinct (IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre 1988)
1990	-	Extinct (IUCN 1990)
1994	-	Extinct (Groombridge 1994)

Geographic Range

Range Description:	Onychogalea lunata was endemic to Australia.
Countries:	Regionally extinct: Australia

Population

Population:

The latest reliable records of the species were in the early 1960s.

Habitat and Ecology

System:

Terrestrial

Threats

Threats:

Drastic population declines were suffered largely through habitat alteration by farming and grazing, and predation from introduced foxes and dogs (the clearance of thickets is thought to have increased the risk of predation on nail-tailed wallabies). These factors are thought to have resulted in the extinction of the crescent nailtail wallaby.

Citation:	Australasian Marsupial & Monotreme Specialist Group 1996. Onychogalea lunata. In: IUCN 2007. 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 07 September 2008.
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