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Brown dorcopsis

Dorcopsis muelleri (Lesson, 1827)

LCLeast Concernmarsupials

The brown dorcopsis (Dorcopsis muelleri) is a species in the family Macropodidae, order Diprotodontia. Recorded adults weigh 5 kg to 5.5 kg and live up to 12.4 years. Source checklists list it for 1 country: Australia. Its IUCN Red List status is Least Concern.

Brown dorcopsis (Dorcopsis muelleri)
Photo: BBKSDA Papua Barat · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Quick facts about the brown dorcopsis

Weight
5 kg – 5.5 kgsrc for Weight
Length
Not recorded
Lifespan
12.4 yearssrc for Lifespan
Diet
Herbivoresrc for Diet
Longest recorded lifespan
13.9 years
Main food
Not recorded
Habitat
Not recorded
Young per litter or clutch
1src for Young per litter or clutch
Age at maturity
15.8 monthssrc for Age at maturity
Litters or clutches a year
1.52src for Litters or clutches a year
Active
At night (nocturnal)src for Active
Lifestyle
Terrestrialsrc for Lifestyle
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN)src for Conservation status
Countries on record
1 countrysrc for Countries on record

Where does the brown dorcopsis live?

Countries where Catalogue of Life checklists list the species. Many checklists carry no country data, so the list is often incomplete. It is not a range map.

The brown dorcopsis is listed for 1 country.

Australia
  • Listed
  • Not listed
small islands are not drawn at this scale

The same countries as a list

  1. Australia

Listed by: ITIS (scope: global), through the Catalogue of Life.

What is the brown dorcopsis?

Quoted from WikipediaCC BY-SA 4.0

The brown dorcopsis (Dorcopsis muelleri), also known as the brown forest wallaby, is a species of marsupial in the family Macropodidae. It is endemic to the lowlands of West New Guinea (Southwest Papua, West Papua, Central Papua, Papua) and the nearby Indonesian islands (Salawati, Misool, Yapen).

From the Wikipedia article “Brown dorcopsis” (en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Brown_dorcopsis&oldid=1379925762), by Wikipedia contributors, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0). This block is kept separate from our own text.

Is the brown dorcopsis endangered?

The brown dorcopsis is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List: it is not currently at risk of extinction.

  1. LCLeast Concern
  2. NTNear Threatened
  3. VUVulnerable
  4. ENEndangered
  5. CRCritically Endangered
  6. EWExtinct in the Wild
  7. EXExtinct

Category via Wikidata (CC0). Find the full assessment on the IUCN Red List. See all Least Concern species.

How is the brown dorcopsis classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumChordata
  3. classMammalia
  4. orderDiprotodontia
  5. familyMacropodidae
  6. genusDorcopsis
  7. SpeciesDorcopsis muelleri (Lesson, 1827)

Synonyms Macropus muelleri, Macropus muelleri

Other names and names in other languages (14)
  • Brown forest wallabyEnglish
  • Brown forest wallabyEnglish
  • دوركوبسيس البنيArabic
  • ولب الغابة البنيArabic
  • Braunes BuschkänguruGerman
  • Ualabí Forestal PardoSpanish
  • metsäkenguruFinnish
  • Dorcopsis brunFrench
  • Dorcopsis muelleriFrench
  • Walabi EsemIndonesian
  • オオドルコプシスJapanese
  • MullerwallabieDutch
  • kangurowiec pręgowanyPolish
  • Ualabi-silvestre-marromPortuguese

Catalogue of LifeWikipediaiNaturalistWikidataIUCN Red List

Relatives of the brown dorcopsis

Other species in the same genus Dorcopsis.

CR, Critically Endangered

Black dorcopsis

Dorcopsis atrata

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

How big is the brown dorcopsis?

An adult brown dorcopsis weighs 5 kg – 5.5 kg, according to values recorded on Wikidata.

Where does the brown dorcopsis live?

Catalogue of Life checklists list the brown dorcopsis for 1 country: Australia. Checklist coverage is uneven, so the true range may be wider.

Is the brown dorcopsis endangered?

The brown dorcopsis is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List, meaning it is not currently at risk of extinction.

How long does the brown dorcopsis live?

The brown dorcopsis has a recorded lifespan of 12.4 years.

What kind of animal is the brown dorcopsis?

The brown dorcopsis (Dorcopsis muelleri) belongs to the family Macropodidae in the order Diprotodontia.

Sources and how to cite this page

Data as of 2026-11-11. How this page is put together.

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APA

CreatureData. (2026). Brown dorcopsis (Dorcopsis muelleri). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/brown-dorcopsis

MLA

“Brown dorcopsis (Dorcopsis muelleri).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/brown-dorcopsis.

BibTeX
@misc{brown_dorcopsis_2026,
  title = {Brown dorcopsis (Dorcopsis muelleri)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/brown-dorcopsis},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-11}
}