Onychogalea lunata (Gould 1840)

[Macropus] lunatus Gould 1840, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1840: 93.

Type Locality: Australia, Western Australia, coast.

Vernacular Names: Crescent Nail-tail Wallaby.

Distribution: SC and SW Western Australia, S Northern Territory.

Conservation: CITES – Appendix I; U.S. ESA – Endangered; IUCN – Extinct; probably extinct.

Discussion: Extinct throughout most or all of its former range. McAllan and Bruce (1989) argued that the original publication of this name was in The Athenaeum, 670:685 [29 August 1840].