Species Petrogale xanthopus Gray, 1855

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Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP)

Ecological Descriptors

Crepuscular, folivore, gregarious, nocturnal, open scrub, terrestrial.

 

General References

Clancy, T.F. & Close, R.L. 1997. Queensland rock-wallabies - An overview of their conservation status, threats and management. Australian Mammalogy 19: 169-174

Copley, P.B. & Alexander, P.J. 1997. Overview of the status of rock-wallabies in South Australia. Australian Mammalogy 19: 153-162

Copley, P.B. & Robertson, A.C. 1983. Studies on the yellow-footed rock-wallaby, Petrogale xanthopus Gray (Marsupialia: Macropodidae). II. Diet. Australian Wildlife Research 10: 63-76

Copley, P.B. & Robinson, A.C. 1983. Studies on the yellow-footed rock-wallaby, Petrogale xanthopus Gray (Marsupialia Macropodidae) II. Diet. Australian Wildlife Research 10: 63-76

Dawson, T.J. & Ellis, B.A. 1973. Comparison of the diets of Yellow-footed Rock-wallabies and sympatric herbivores in western New South Wales. Australian Wildlife Research 6: 245-254

Dawson, T.J. & Ellis, B.A. 1994. Did dietary competition play a role in the extinction of small macropodids in western New South Wales with the coming of European settlement. pp. 75-80 in Lunney, D., Hand, S., Reed, P. & Butcher, D. (eds). Future of the fauna of western New South Wales. Mosman : Royal Zoological Society of NSW 245 pp.

Dovey, L., Wong, V. & Bayne, P. 1997. An overview of the status and management of rock-wallabies (Petrogale) in New South Wales. Australian Mammalogy 19: 163-168

Eldridge, M.D.B. 1997. Restriction analysis of mitochondrial DNA from the yellow footed rock-wallaby, Petrogale xanthopus: implications for management. Wildlife Research 24: 289-294

Eldridge, M.D.B. 1997. Taxonomy of rock-wallabies, Petrogale (Marsupialia: Macropodidae). II. An historical review. Australian Mammalogy 19: 113-122

Eldridge, M.D.B., Johnston, P.G. & Close, R.L. 1992. Chromosomal rearrangements in rock wallabies, Petrogale (Marsupialia: Macropodidae) VI. Determination of the plesiomorphic karyotype: G-banding comparison of Thylogale with Petrogale persephone, P. xanthopus and P. l. lateralis. Cytogenetics and Cell Genetics 61: 29-33

Gordon, G., McRae, P., Lim, L., Reimer, D. & Porter, G. 1993. The conservation status of the yellow-footed rock-wallaby in Queensland. Oryx 27: 159-168

Hornsby, P. 1997. Possible causes of mortality in the yellow-footed rock-wallaby, P. xanthopus. Australian Mammalogy 19: 245-248

Jarman, P.J. 1994. The eating of seedheads by species of Macropodidae. Australian Mammalogy 17: 51-63

Lapidge, S.J. 2000. Dietary adaptation of reintroduced yellow-footed rock-wallabies, Petrogale xanthopus xanthopus (Marsupialia: Macropodidae), in the northern Flinders Ranges, South Australia. Wildlife Research 27: 195-201

Lim, L. 1987. The conservation and management of the yellow-footed rock-wallaby Petrogale xanthopus Gray, 1854. Department of Environment and Planning, South Australia, Special Publication No. 4. 1-94 pp.

Lim, L., Sheppard, N., Smith, P. & Smith, J. 1992. The biology and management of the yellow-footed rock-wallaby (Petrogale xanthopus) in NSW. Hurstville : NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service 59 pp.

Lim, T.L. & Giles, J.R. 1987. Studies on the yellow footed rock wallaby, Petrogale xanthopus Gray (Macropus: Macropodidae) III. Distribution and management in Western New South Wales. Australian Wildlife Research 14: 147-161

Maxwell, S., Burbidge, A.A. & Morris, K. 1996. The 1996 Action Plan for Australian Marsupials and Monotremes. Canberra : Wildlife Australia 234 pp.

Maxwell, S., Burbidge, A.A. & Morris, K. 1996. The 1996 Action Plan for Australian Marsupials and Monotremes. Canberra : Wildlife Australia 234 pp.

Poole, W.E., Merchant, J.C., Carpenter, S.M. & Calaby, J.H. 1985. Reproduction, growth and age determination in the yellow-footed rock-wallaby Petrogale xanthopus Gray, in captivity. Australian Wildlife Research 12: 127-136

Pope, L.C., Sharp, A. & Moritz, C. 1996. Population structure of yellow footed rock-wallaby Petrogale xanthopus (Gray, 1854) inferred from mtDNA sequences and microsatellite loci. Molecular Ecology 5: 629-640

Robinson, A.C., Lim, L., Canty, P.D., Jenkins, R.B. & MacDonald, C.A. 1994. Studies of the yellow-footed rock-wallaby, Petrogale xanthopus Gray (Marsupialia: Macropodidae). Population studies at Middle Gorge, South Australia. Wildlife Research 21: 473-481

Sharman, G.B., Maynes, G.M., Eldridge, M.D.B. & Close, R.L. 1995. Yellow-footed Rock-wallaby Petrogale xanthopus. pp. 391-393 in Strahan, R. (ed.). The Mammals of Australia: The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. Sydney : Reed New Holland 756 pp.

Sharp, A. 1997. Insights into the dispersal patterns of yellow-footed rock-wallabies, P. xanthopus. Australian Mammalogy 19: 229-238

Sharp, A. 1997. The use of shelter sites by yellow-footed rock-wallabies, P. xanthopus, in central-western Queensland. Australian Mammalogy 19: 239-244

Wilson, G.R., Gerritsen, J. & Milthorpe, P.L. 1976. The yellow-footed rock-wallaby Petrogale xanthopus (Macropodidae), in western New South Wales. Australian Wildlife Research 3: 73-78

 

Common Name References

ABRS 2001. Census of Australian Vertebrates. Australian Biological Resources Study. (Yellow-footed Rock-wallaby)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
29-Nov-2016		05-Nov-2010	MOVED
29-Oct-2010		29-Oct-2010	MOVED
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