Brush-tailed rock-wallaby: Where It Lives, Map & Facts

Where the brush-tailed rock-wallaby lives – recorded in 1 country, with quick facts from Wikidata and an introduction from Wikipedia.

Scientific name	Petrogale penicillata
Group	Marsupials
Status	Vulnerable (Wikidata, IUCN category label)
Found in	1 country
Continents	Oceania
Class	Mammal
Order	Diprotodontia
Family	Macropodidae

Where does the brush-tailed rock-wallaby live?

Open-licence (CC0 / CC BY) wild records published on GBIF place the brush-tailed rock-wallaby in 1 country or territory across Oceania. Wikidata lists it as endemic to Australia.

Australia

Countries with at least a handful of records (a minimum share of the species’ records, to leave out vagrants and escapes). Records with coordinates only; captive and fossil records excluded.

Is the brush-tailed rock-wallaby endangered?

The brush-tailed rock-wallaby’s conservation status recorded in Wikidata is “Vulnerable” (an IUCN Red List category label). Source: Wikidata.

What kind of animal is the brush-tailed rock-wallaby?

The brush-tailed rock-wallaby (Petrogale penicillata) is a mammal in the order Diprotodontia and the family Macropodidae, genus Petrogale. (Taxonomy from Wikidata.)

About the brush-tailed rock-wallaby

The brush-tailed rock-wallaby or small-eared rock-wallaby (Petrogale penicillata) is a kind of wallaby, one of several rock-wallabies in the genus Petrogale. It inhabits rock piles and cliff lines along the Great Dividing Range from about 100 km north-west of Brisbane to northern Victoria, in vegetation ranging from rainforest to dry sclerophyll forests. Populations have declined seriously in the south and west of its range, but it remains locally common in northern New South Wales and southern Queensland. However, due to a large bushfire event in South-East Australia around 70% of all the wallaby's habitat has been lost as of January 2020.

In 2018, the southern brush-tailed rock wallaby was declared as the official mammal emblem of the Australian Capital Territory (ACT), although it has not been seen in the wild in the ACT since 1959.

Text in “About” is quoted from the Wikipedia article Brush-tailed rock-wallaby (revision 1351101374), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: lead section excerpted verbatim, formatting removed. Quick facts, taxonomy and status: Wikidata Q209582 (CC0). Countries and pin: GBIF.org occurrence records (CC0 / CC BY 4.0).