Carpals of Swamp Wallaby (Wallabia bicolor) are from left wrist of a male wallaby 1.65 m from head to tail unless noted otherwise.

Unlike humans, the swamp wallaby has seven carpal bones, not eight (the scaphoid and lunate form a single scapholunar bone). The trapezoid is tiny (5 mm long)

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Wallabia bicolor carpal tunnel.JPG     Wallabia bicolor overview.JPG

Wallabia bicolor carpals apr 2006.JPG    Wallabia bicolor carpals in order.JPG

Wallabia bicolor ulna tip in triquetral.JPG    Wallabia bicolor scapholunar still bound.JPG

Wallabia bicolor joint capsule scapholunar hamate 2.JPG    Wallabia bicolor joint capsule scapholunar hamate.JPG

Wallabia bicolor left scapholunars.JPG    Wallabia bicolor two left scapholunars.JPG

Wallabia bicolor triquetrals.JPG     Wallabia bicolor trapeziums.JPG

Wallabia bicolor trapeziums 2.JPG     Wallabia bicolor trapezoid.JPG

Wallabia bicolor left trapezoids.JPG    Wallabia bicolor left capitates.JPG

Wallabia bicolor capitate and trapezoid separating.JPG    Wallabia bicolor capitates.jpg

Wallabia bicolor left hamates.JPG    Wallabia bicolor hamate separating.JPG

Wallabia bicolor distal carpal row hamate on left.JPG

Wallabia bicolor distal row without hamate.JPG    Wallabia bicolor second carpal row.JPG

Wallabia bicolor distal row stepped metacarpals.JPG    miscellaneous bones t.jpg

Mnemonic for wrist bones of mammals and their order in the two carpal rows:

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(1st, upper, medial, proximal row = scaphoid, lunate aka semi-lunar, triquetral aka cuneiform, pisiform)

(2nd , lower, distal row = trapezium, trapezoid, capitate aka os magnum, hamate aka unciform hook shaped)

Swamp Wallaby is in Class Mammalia, Subclass Marsupialia (Metharians also include Marsupials), Order Diprotodontia (Koalas, Wombats, Possums, Macropods), Superfamily Macropodoidea, Family Macropodidae (Wallabies, kangaroos, tree-kangaroos), Subfamily Macropodinae, Genus Wallabia, Species bicolor. This classification is from: Mammals of Australia, Editor Ronald Strahan, revised edition, Reed New Holland Publishers, Sydney, 1995, which says “A combination of genetic, reproductive, dental and behavioural characteristics set the Swamp Wallaby so far apart from other wallabies that it is classified as the sole living member of the genus Wallabia.” p409. This is debated because it can hybridize with Macropus agilis (agile wallaby) so perhaps should be placed in the genus Macropus.