Notamacropus

{{Short description|Genus of marsupials}}

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| name = Notamacropus{{MSW3 Diprotodontia|pages=63–66|id=11000241}}

| image = Whiptail Wallaby Front.JPG

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| image_caption = Whiptail wallaby (Notamacropus parryi)

| taxon = Notamacropus

| authority = Dawson & Flannery, 1985

| type_species = Halmaturus agilis{{cite journal |last1=Dawson |first1=Lyndall |last2=Flannery |first2=T. |title=Taxonomic and Phylogenetic Status of Living and Fossil Kangaroos and Wallabies of the Genus Macropus Shaw (Macropodidae:Marsupialia), with a New Subgeneric Name for the Larger Wallabies |journal=Australian Journal of Zoology |date=1985 |volume=33 |issue=4 |page=489 |doi=10.1071/ZO9850473}}

| type_species_authority = Gould, 1841

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Notamacropus is a genus of small marsupials in the family Macropodidae, commonly known as wallabies (among other species). The term is derived from the Latin nota "stripe" and macropus "kangaroo", referencing the distinct facial stripe of many extant genus members and their phylogenetic relationship to

other kangaroos.{{cite journal|last1=Dawson |first1=Lyndall |last2=Flannery |first2=Tim |date=1985 |title=Taxonomic and Phylogenetic Status of Living and Fossil Kangaroos and Wallabies of the Genus Macropus Shaw (Macropodidae: Marsupialia), with a New Subgeneric Name for the Larger Wallabies |url=https://www.publish.csiro.au/zo/ZO9850473 |journal=Australian Journal of Zoology |volume=33 |issue=4 |pages=473–498 |doi=10.1071/ZO9850473 |access-date=8 September 2023}}

In 2019, a reassessment of macropod taxonomy determined that Notamacropus and Osphranter, formerly considered subgenera of Macropus, should be moved to the genus level.{{cite journal |last1=Celik |first1=Mélina |last2=Cascini |first2=Manuela |last3=Haouchar |first3=Dalal |last4=Van Der Burg |first4=Chloe |last5=Dodt |first5=William |last6=Evans |first6=Alistair |last7=Prentis |first7=Peter |last8=Bunce |first8=Michael |last9=Fruciano |first9=Carmelo |last10=Phillips |first10=Matthew |date=28 March 2019 |title=A molecular and morphometric assessment of the systematics of the Macropus complex clarifies the tempo and mode of kangaroo evolution |url= https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article-abstract/186/3/793/5421215 |journal=Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society |volume=186 |issue=3 |pages=793–812 |doi=10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz005 |access-date=1 March 2020}} This change was accepted by the Australian Faunal Directory in 2020.{{cite web|title=Names List for MACROPODIDAE, Australian Faunal Directory|url=https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/MACROPODIDAE/names|publisher=Australian Biological Resources Study, Australian Department of the Environment and Energy|access-date=1 March 2020|date=13 February 2020}}