The Bermuda Zoological Society's baby wallaby finally has a name.

Hannah Dudden, 11, submitted the name "Wallace" in the competition to find a name for the Bermuda Aquarium & Zoo's newest addition - a Parma Wallaby joey.

Hannah - whose Bermudian father read about the contest on The Royal Gazette'swebsite in the UK - encouraged his two daughters to do research on the Parma Wallaby and enter the contest.

The Parma Wallaby, along with his parents, Petra and Maura, reside in the Australasia Exhibition of the zoo. The exhibit includes animals from the regions along the "Wallace Line" - an invisible biological barrier described in the 1860s by the British naturalist Alfred Russell Wallace.

Parma Wallabies are endemic to Australia and New Zealand and are considered a threatened species. The new joey is considered a great contribution to the survival of the species.

For more information on the Parma Wallaby, visit the BAMZ website at www.bamz.org.