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wallaroo

A kangaroo with a shaggy coat and naked muzzle; two species: the solitary wallaroo, euro, or hill kangaroo (Macropus robustus) from rocky hill regions, and the antilopine wallaroo (Macropus antilopinus), which occurs in groups (‘mobs’) on N Australian grassland.

robustus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Infraclass: Marsupialia
Order: Diprotodontia
Suborder: Macropodiformes
Family: Macropodidae
Genus: Macropus
in part
Species

Macropus robustus
Macropus bernardus
Macropus antilopinus

A wallaroo is any of three closely related species of moderately large macropod, intermediate in size between the kangaroos and the wallabies.

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