Unadorned Rock-wallaby

Taxobox
name = Unadorned Rock-wallabyMSW3 Groves|pages=67-68]


status = LC
status_system = iucn3.1
status_ref = IUCN2006|assessors=Australasian Marsupial & Monotreme Specialist Group|year=1996|id=41516|title=Petrogale inornata|downloaded=2007-01-28 ]
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
subclassis = Marsupialia
ordo = Diprotodontia
familia = Macropodidae
genus = "Petrogale"
species = "P. inornata"
binomial = "Petrogale inornata"
binomial_authority = Gould, 1842

The Unadorned Rock-wallaby ("Petrogale inornata") is a member of a group of closely related rock-wallabies found in northeastern Queensland, Australia. It is paler than most of its relatives and even plainer, hence its common name.

The Unadorned Rock-wallaby is patchily distributed in coastal ranges from around Rockhampton to near Townsville. This range includes the small range of the Proserpine Rock-wallaby ("P. persephone"), the only rock-wallaby in the region not closely related to its neighbours. Interbreeding threatens the latter species.cite book|first=Peter|last=Menkhorst|year=2001|title=A Field Guide to the Mammals of Australia|publisher=Oxford University Press|pages=130]

References

External links

* [http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/platebk/0/0/0/doc/pb000747.shtml John Gould's painting of Petrogale inornata]