Red kangaroo
The red kangaroo (Osphranter rufus) is the largest of all kangaroos, the largest terrestrial mammal native to Australia, and the largest extant marsupial. It is found across mainland Australia, except for the more fertile areas, such as southern Western Australia, the eastern and southeastern coasts, and the rainforests along the northern coast.
| Red kangaroo Temporal range: Early Pleistocene – Recent | |
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| A male at Healesville Sanctuary in Healesville, Victoria | |
| A female at the Nashville Zoo in Nashville, Tennessee | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
| Order: | Diprotodontia |
| Family: | Macropodidae |
| Genus: | Osphranter |
| Species: | O. rufus |
| Binomial name | |
| Osphranter rufus (Desmarest, 1822) | |
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