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Brown's pademelon

Thylogale browni (Ramsay, 1887)

VUVulnerablemarsupials

The brown's pademelon (Thylogale browni) is a species in the family Macropodidae, order Diprotodontia. Recorded adults weigh about 5.48 kg. Source checklists list it for 1 country: Australia. Its IUCN Red List status is Vulnerable.

Brown's pademelon (Thylogale browni)
Photo: Joseph Smit · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Quick facts about the brown's pademelon

Weight
5.48 kgsrc for Weight
Length
Not recorded
Lifespan
Not recorded
Diet
Herbivoresrc for Diet
Main food
Not recorded
Habitat
Not recorded
Young per litter or clutch
1.01src for Young per litter or clutch
Active
At night (nocturnal)src for Active
Lifestyle
Terrestrialsrc for Lifestyle
Conservation status
Vulnerable (IUCN)src for Conservation status
Countries on record
1 countrysrc for Countries on record

Where does the brown's pademelon 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's pademelon 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

Why a country list is not a range map

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

What is the brown's pademelon?

Quoted from WikipediaCC BY-SA 4.0

Brown's pademelon (Thylogale browni) is a species of marsupial in the family Macropodidae. It is found in New Guinea. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, dry savanna, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, and subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland. It is threatened by habitat loss.

From the Wikipedia article “Brown's pademelon” (en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Brown%27s_pademelon&oldid=1313794844), 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's pademelon endangered?

The brown's pademelon is listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List: it faces a high risk of extinction in the wild.

  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 Vulnerable species. What the categories mean.

How is the brown's pademelon classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumChordata
  3. classMammalia
  4. orderDiprotodontia
  5. familyMacropodidae
  6. genusThylogale
  7. SpeciesThylogale browni (Ramsay, 1887)

Synonyms Halmaturus browni, Macropus keysseri, Macropus lugens, Macropus tibol, Thylogale lauterbachi

Other names and names in other languages (15)
  • Brown s pademelonEnglish
  • Brown’s pademelonEnglish
  • Mountain pademelonEnglish
  • New Guinea pademelonEnglish
  • New Guinea pademelonEnglish
  • باديميلون جبليArabic
  • Nördlicher Neuguinea-FilanderGerman
  • Pademelon de PapúaSpanish
  • Pademelon de BrownFrench
  • Pademelon des montagnesFrench
  • ブラウンヤブワラビーJapanese
  • pademelon nowogwinejskiPolish
  • Pademelon-da-PapuaPortuguese
  • Горный филандерRussian
  • Филандер БраунаRussian

Catalogue of LifeWikipediaiNaturalistWikidataIUCN Red List

Relatives of the brown's pademelon

Other species in the same genus Thylogale.

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

How big is the brown's pademelon?

An adult brown's pademelon weighs 5.48 kg, according to values recorded on Wikidata.

Where does the brown's pademelon live?

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

Is the brown's pademelon endangered?

The brown's pademelon is listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List, meaning it faces a high risk of extinction in the wild.

What kind of animal is the brown's pademelon?

The brown's pademelon (Thylogale browni) 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

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BibTeX
@misc{browns_pademelon_2026,
  title = {Brown's pademelon (Thylogale browni)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/browns-pademelon},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-11}
}