Macropus robustus Gould, 1841 . Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1840:92 [1841].

TYPE LOCALITY: Australia, New South Wales, interior (summit of mountains) .

DISTRIBUTION: Australia: Western Australia, South Australia, S Northern Territory, Queensland, New South Wales, Barrow Isl.

STATUS: Abundant.

SYNONYMS: alligatoris, alexandriae, argentatus, bracteator, cervinus, erubescens, hagenbecki, isabellinus, magnus, reginae, rubens, woodwardi .

COMMENTS: Subgenus Osphranter . See Richardson and Sharman (1976). McAllan and Bruce (1989) would date robustus from: The Athenaeum, 670:685 [29 August 1840].