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Bennett's wallaby
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English
Etymology
From the name of Edward Turner Bennett (1797–1836), English zoologist.
Noun
A subspecies of red-necked wallaby, Notamacropus rufogriseus rufogriseus subspecies, native to Tasmania and the Bass Strait islands. from 19th c.
1999, Julia Leigh, The Hunter, Faber & Faber 2012, p. 22:
All winter he has been looking for the track, living in caves ; for food he has had nothing but Bennett's wallaby, the odd pademelon.
en eponyms
en Macropods