Family: Macropodidae
Genu: Dendrolagus
Species: spadix

The Lowland Tree Kangaroo is found in primary rainforest of lowland swamps in the Gulf and Western Provinces of Papua New Guinea. It is thought to be found at elevations from sea level to 800m within an area of up to 20,000 square kilometres.
The Lowland Tree Kangaroo is reddish-brown in colour with the stomach region being paler than the back. A live specimen kept in the Port Moresby Botanical Gardens in 2001 was a uniform dark red in colour, lightly furred and somewhat similar in shape to Goodfellow's Tree-kangaroo.
Only two Lowland Tree Kangaroos have ever been weighed. Both were males and weighed 7 and 9.1kg.
Unfortunately very little is known on the life history of this species. Until research is conducted on the Lowland Tree Kangaroo its status remains unknown.

Lowland Tree Kangaroo
(Dendrolagus spadix)

Illustration by Peter Schouten