Crescent Nail-tail Wallaby vs

Onychogalea lunata compared with Postia lowei

Key Differences

• Crescent Nail-tail Wallaby is Extinct while is Not Evaluated.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Crescent Nail-tail Wallaby
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Fungi (Fungi)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Basidiomycota (Club Fungi)
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Agaricomycetes (Mushrooms)
Order	Diprotodontia (Marsupials)	Polyporales (Polyporales)
Family	Macropodidae (Kangaroos)	Dacryobolaceae
Genus	Onychogalea	Postia
Species	Onychogalea lunata	Postia lowei

Conservation Status

Crescent Nail-tail Wallaby

EX — Extinct

NE — Not Evaluated

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Crescent Nail-tail Wallaby
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Crescent Nail-tail Wallaby

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Habitat

Typically found in forest floors, decomposing wood, and soil ecosystems.

Range

Distributed across Norway, Sweden, and Taiwan.

Postia lowei is a soft, white to cream-colored bracket fungus forming annual, shelf-like fruiting bodies on decaying conifer wood. It inhabits boreal and montane coniferous forests, growing on dead fallen logs and stumps. This brown-rot saprotrophic fungus decomposes the cellulose of conifer wood, leaving characteristic brown cubical rot.