Northern nail-tail wallaby: Where It Lives, Map & Facts

Where the northern nail-tail wallaby lives – recorded in 1 country, with quick facts from Wikidata and an introduction from Wikipedia.

Scientific name	Onychogalea unguifera
Group	Marsupials
Status	Least concern (Wikidata, IUCN category label)
Found in	1 country
Continents	Oceania
Class	Mammal
Order	Diprotodontia
Family	Macropodidae

Where does the northern nail-tail wallaby live?

Open-licence (CC0 / CC BY) wild records published on GBIF place the northern nail-tail wallaby in 1 country or territory across Oceania. Wikidata lists it as endemic to Australia.

Australia

Countries with at least a handful of records (a minimum share of the species’ records, to leave out vagrants and escapes). Records with coordinates only; captive and fossil records excluded.

Is the northern nail-tail wallaby endangered?

The northern nail-tail wallaby’s conservation status recorded in Wikidata is “Least concern” (an IUCN Red List category label). Source: Wikidata.

What kind of animal is the northern nail-tail wallaby?

The northern nail-tail wallaby (Onychogalea unguifera) is a mammal in the order Diprotodontia and the family Macropodidae, genus Onychogalea. (Taxonomy from Wikidata.)

About the northern nail-tail wallaby

The northern or sandy nail-tail wallaby (Onychogalea unguifera) is a species of macropod found across northern Australia on arid and sparsely wooded plains. The largest species of the genus Onychogalea, it is a solitary and nocturnal herbivorous browser that selects its food from a wide variety of grasses and succulent plant material. Distinguished by a slender and long-limbed form that resembles the typical and well known kangaroos, although their standing height is shorter, around half of one metre, and their weight is less than nine kilograms. As with some medium to large kangaroo species, such as Osphranter rufus, they have an unusual pentapedal motion at slow speeds by stiffening the tail for a fifth limb. When fleeing a disturbance, they hop rapidly with the tail curled back and repeatedly utter the sound "wuluhwuluh". Their exceptionally long tail has a broad fingernail-like protuberance beneath a dark crest of hair at its end, a peculiarity of the genus that is much broader than the other species. The name unguifera, meaning claw, is a reference to this extraordinary attribute, the purpose of which is unknown.

Text in “About” is quoted from the Wikipedia article Northern nail-tail wallaby (revision 1369289559), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: lead section excerpted verbatim, formatting removed. Quick facts, taxonomy and status: Wikidata Q112941 (CC0). Countries and pin: GBIF.org occurrence records (CC0 / CC BY 4.0).