What is Tammar wallaby?
{{Taxobox | name = Tammar wallaby <ref name=MSW3>{{MSW3 Groves|pages=64}}</ref> | status = LC | status_system = iucn3.1 | status_ref = <ref name=iucn>{{IUCN2008|assessors=Morris K. |display-authors = etal |year=2008|id=41512|title=Macropus eugenii|downloaded=28 December 2008}} Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern</ref> | image = Macropus eugenii.jpg | regnum = [[Animal]]ia | phylum = [[Chordate|Chordata]] | classis = [[Mammal]]ia | infraclassis = [[Marsupialia]] | ordo = [[Diprotodontia]] | familia = [[Macropodidae]] | genus = ''[[Macropus]]'' | binomial = ''Macropus eugenii'' | binomial_authority = [[Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest|Desmarest]], 1817}} [[Image:Tammar wallaby Innes.JPG|thumb|220px|''Macropus eugenii eugenii'' at Innes National Park, South Australia ]] The '''tammar wallaby''' (''Macropus eugenii'') is a small [[species]] of [[wallaby]] from [[Australia]]. They were the first [[macropod]]s to be seen by Europeans. Francisco Pelsaert, captain of the [[Batavia (ship)|Batavia]], saw them when the ship was wrecked on the [[Abrolhos Islands]] in 1629. He said they looked like hopping cats. There are three sub-species of tammar wallaby: *''M. e. eugenii'' from mainland [[South Australia]]. <ref>{{Cite web |url= http://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/sprat/public/publicspecies.pl?taxon_id=66653 |title=Macropus eugenii eugenii — tammar wallaby (South Australia) |work=environment.gov.au |access-date=10 November 2010 }}</ref> *''M. e. derbianus'' from [[Western Australia]]. *''M. e. decres'', the darma or dama wallaby, from [[Kangaroo Island]], South Australia. The name tammar comes from the word ''tamma'', meaning sheoak. The wallaby lives under sheoak plants. Tammar wallabies became [[extinction|extinct]] on mainland South Australia in the 1930's.<ref name=env>{{Cite web |url=http://www.environment.sa.gov.au/biodiversity/threatened-species/tammar.html |title=Biodiversity - Threatened Fauna - Tammar Wallaby |work=environment.sa.gov.au |access-date=10 November 201