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Dusky pademelon

Thylogale brunii (Schreber, 1778)

VUVulnerablemarsupials

The dusky pademelon (Thylogale brunii) is a species in the family Macropodidae, order Diprotodontia. Recorded adults weigh 3.62 kg to 14.5 kg and live up to 9.6 years. Source checklists list it for 1 country: Australia. Its IUCN Red List status is Vulnerable.

Dusky pademelon (Thylogale brunii)
Photo: John Gould · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Quick facts about the dusky pademelon

Weight
3.62 kg – 14.5 kgsrc for Weight
Length
Not recorded
Lifespan
9.6 yearssrc for Lifespan
Diet
Herbivoresrc for Diet
Longest recorded lifespan
15.1 years
Main food
Not recorded
Habitat
Not recorded
Gestation
29.9 dayssrc for Gestation
Young per litter or clutch
1src for Young per litter or clutch
Age at maturity
11.3 months – 2 yearssrc for Age at maturity
Litters or clutches a year
1src for Litters or clutches a year
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 dusky 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 dusky 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

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

What is the dusky pademelon?

Quoted from WikipediaCC BY-SA 4.0

The dusky pademelon or dusky wallaby (Thylogale brunii) is a species of marsupial in the family Macropodidae. It is found in the Aru and Kai islands and the Trans-Fly savanna and grasslands ecoregion of 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 “Dusky pademelon” (en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dusky_pademelon&oldid=1318737257), 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 dusky pademelon endangered?

The dusky 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.

How is the dusky pademelon classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumChordata
  3. classMammalia
  4. orderDiprotodontia
  5. familyMacropodidae
  6. genusThylogale
  7. SpeciesThylogale brunii (Schreber, 1778)

Synonyms Didelphis brunii, Didelphys brunii, Macropus gracilis, Macropus jukesii

Other names and names in other languages (15)
  • Dusky wallabyEnglish
  • Dusky wallabyEnglish
  • باديميلون داكنArabic
  • klokan uruCzech
  • Südlicher Neuguinea-FilanderGerman
  • Pademelon OscuroSpanish
  • papuanvallabiFinnish
  • Pademelon à queue courteFrench
  • Új-guineai filanderkenguruHungarian
  • Pelandu AruIndonesian
  • コゲチャヤブワラビーJapanese
  • De BruijnpademelonDutch
  • pademelon śniadyPolish
  • Pademelon-EscuroPortuguese
  • Новогвинейский филандерRussian

Catalogue of LifeWikipediaiNaturalistWikidataIUCN Red List

Relatives of the dusky 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 dusky pademelon?

An adult dusky pademelon weighs 3.62 kg – 14.5 kg, according to values recorded on Wikidata.

Where does the dusky pademelon live?

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

Is the dusky pademelon endangered?

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

How long does the dusky pademelon live?

The dusky pademelon has a recorded lifespan of 9.6 years.

How long is the dusky pademelon pregnant?

The recorded gestation period is 29.9 days.

What kind of animal is the dusky pademelon?

The dusky pademelon (Thylogale brunii) 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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BibTeX
@misc{dusky_pademelon_2026,
  title = {Dusky pademelon (Thylogale brunii)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/dusky-pademelon},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-11}
}