Species profile—Petrogale purpureicollis (purple-necked rock-wallaby)
Classification
Animalia (animals) → Mammalia (mammals) → Macropodidae (wallabies, kangaroos and tree-kangaroos) → Petrogale purpureicollis (purple-necked rock-wallaby)
Sighting data
Species details
- Kingdom
- Animalia (animals)
- Class
- Mammalia (mammals)
- Family
- Macropodidae (wallabies, kangaroos and tree-kangaroos)
- Scientific name
- Petrogale purpureicollis Le Souef, 1924
- Common name
- purple-necked rock-wallaby
- Type reference
- Le Souef, A.S. (1924). Notes on some rock wallabies, genus Petrogale, with descriptions of two new species. Australian Zoologist 3: 272-276.
- WildNet taxon ID
- 888
- Synonym(s)
- Petrogale lateralis purpureicollis
- Alternate name(s)
- black-footed rock-wallaby
black-flanked rock-wallaby - Nature Conservation Act 1992 (NCA) status
- Vulnerable
- Conservation significant
- Yes
- Endemicity
- Native
- Pest status
- Nil
- Map
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Other resources
Data source
This profile data is sourced from the QLD Wildlife Data API using the Get species by ID function used under CC-By 4.0.
https://apps.des.qld.gov.au/species/?op=getspeciesbyid&taxonid=888.
This information is sourced from the WildNet database managed by the Queensland Department of Environment and Science.
