In other species: grass carp , rainbow trout , African clawed frog , grivet , Bornean orangutan , dog , American black bear , brown bear , raccoon , Sumatran tiger , hippopotamus , American bison , banteng , taurine cattle , sheep , hares , golden hamster , North American deer mouse , meadow voles , bush rat , Australian dusky field rat , long-haired rat , nutria , gray short-tailed opossum , New Zealand fur seal , northern pocket gopher , giant uromys , Arizona pocket mouse , rufous rat-kangaroo , turkey vulture , eastern chipmunk , Campbell's desert hamster , fishing cat , Golden-bellied Water Rat , western chorus frog , brown desert mouse , Ash-gray Pseudomys , Heath Pseudomys

Categories: Pigmentation phene

Single-gene trait/disorder: unknown

Disease-related: yes

Key variant is published: no

Cross-species summary: Congenital lack of pigment in all parts of the body. See also Skin colour, albinism, generic

Species summary: Previously listed as OMIA:002280-88869: Coat colour, albinism, generic in Macropus rufogriseus rufogriseus. Species information was updated to Notamacropus rufogriseus [22/10/2025]. See also OMIA:000202-1960652: Coat/skin colour, oculocutaneous albinism type I (OCA1), TYR-related in Notamacropus rufogriseus (red-necked wallaby) as the albino animals reported by Guillery et al. (1999) may have the TYR variant reported by Hayashi et al. (2022).  [IT thanks Emma Faull for contributions to this entry in September 2025]  

Pathology: Guillery et al. (1999) reported albino wallabies with abnormalities of the visual pathways that are characteristic of albino eutherian mammals.