Most-northern record of parma wallaby (Notamacropus parma)

Paul D. Meek; Lucy Collingridge; Jakub Juszczak; Elly Gooch; Peter J. S. Fleming

doi:10.1071/AM25018

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Most-northern record of parma wallaby (Notamacropus parma)

Paul D. Meek ^A ^B ^* , Lucy Collingridge ^C , Jakub Juszczak ^D , Elly Gooch ^B and Peter J. S. Fleming

^B ^E

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^A Vertebrate Pest Research Unit, NSW Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development, Coffs Harbour, NSW 2450, Australia.

^B University of New England, Ecosystem Management, School of Environmental and Rural Science, Armidale, NSW 2351, Australia.

^C Vertebrate Pest Research Unit, NSW Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development, Armidale, NSW 2351, Australia.

^D Feral by Nature, 33 Yeager Road, Leycester, NSW 2480, Australia.

^E Vertebrate Pest Research Unit, New South Wales Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development, Orange, NSW 2800, Australia.

^* Correspondence to: paul.meek@dpi.nsw.gov.au

Handling Editor: Ross Goldingay

Australian Mammalogy 47, AM25018 https://doi.org/10.1071/AM25018

Submitted: 23 May 2025 Accepted: 13 June 2025 Published: 3 July 2025

© 2025 The Author(s) (or their employer(s)). Published by CSIRO Publishing on behalf of the Australian Mammal Society. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND)

Abstract

We report on a new northern record of the parma wallaby (Notamacropus parma). This animal was captured and subsequently released during a free-ranging dog trapping and collaring program in agricultural land north of Tooloom National Park, New South Wales (NSW), Australia. The parma wallaby can be difficult to identify where there are sympatric wallabies and pademelons, especially on camera-trap images. While research is underway to better understand the occurrence of this species, its distribution is not accurately known. This incidental detection has extended the known range of the parma wallaby in NSW and accords with the modelled distribution of the species.

Keywords: capture and release, distribution, foot-hold trap, Macropodidae, non-target, range confirmation, sympatric, threatened species.

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