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Herbert's Rock Wallaby

Petrogale herberti Thomas, 1926

Source-backed taxonomic record

Accepted species in Catalogue of Life’s 11 September 2026 base release. This preserves the source classification and available supporting data; it is not a completed species monograph.

Petrogale herberti Thomas, 1926

Petrogale herberti Thomas, 1926

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Open encyclopedia reference

Herbert's rock-wallaby (Petrogale herberti) is a member of a group of seven very closely related rock-wallabies found in northeastern Queensland, Australia. Herbert's is the most southerly and most widespread of the group.

Herbert's rock-wallaby is distributed from around 100 km northwest of Brisbane north to the Fitzroy River. It ranges inland to around Clermont and Rubyvale. It is the largest of the related group of Queensland rock-wallabies.

The species was named in honour of the mineralogist Herbert Smith.

Wikipedia contributors, Herbert's rock-wallaby; see linked history · CC BY-SA 4.0 . Plain-text lead excerpt, at most 180 words; no infobox or later sections Retrieved 2026-10-05T09:44:20.155901+00:00. This reference remains separate from the taxonomic record.

Identity & source status

Scientific name
Petrogale herberti Thomas, 1926
Name authority
Thomas, 1926
Common name
Herbert's Rock Wallaby
Rank
species
Accepted status
accepted
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Mammalia
Order
Diprotodontia
Family
Macropodidae
Genus
Petrogale
Extinction status
Recorded extant

Classification family tree

Nested taxonomic groups from the source. This is not a direct-ancestor chain, a dated evolutionary tree or a phylogenetic reconstruction.

  1. domainEukaryota (Chatton, 1925) Whittaker & Margulis, 1978
  2. kingdomAnimalia
  3. phylumChordata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. infraphylumGnathostomata
  6. parvphylumOsteichthyes
  7. megaclassTetrapoda
  8. classMammalia Linnaeus, 1758
  9. subclassTheria Parker & Haswell, 1897
  10. infraclassMetatheria Huxley, 1880
  11. orderDiprotodontia Owen, 1866
  12. suborderMacropodiformes Ameghino, 1889
  13. familyMacropodidae Gray, 1821
  14. subfamilyMacropodinae Gray, 1821
  15. genusPetrogale Gray, 1837
  16. speciesPetrogale herberti Thomas, 1926

Close classified relatives

These entries share the source’s genus, Petrogale. They are not necessarily the closest relatives established by molecular evidence.

SpeciesClassificationSource status
Purple-necked Rock WallabyPetrogale purpureicollis Le Souef, 1924MacropodidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Black-flanked Rock WallabyPetrogale lateralis Gould, 1842MacropodidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Cape York Rock WallabyPetrogale coenensis Eldredge & Close, 1992MacropodidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
NabarlekPetrogale concinna Gould, 1842MacropodidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Rothschild's Rock WallabyPetrogale rothschildi Thomas, 1904MacropodidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Unadorned Rock WallabyPetrogale inornata Gould, 1842MacropodidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant

Browse 46 records assigned to Macropodidae.

Documented distribution

Source distribution statements, not a complete range map. A listed locality is not necessarily a place of origin.

Australia

Source literature & publication evidence

References attached to this source record, including nomenclatural citations where supplied. This is a selected bibliography; abbreviated citations remain in the source’s form.

  1. https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=709410 Source fields: Taxon.tsv dwc:namePublishedIn, Taxon.tsv dcterms:references

Origins, evidence & remaining research

Name authority and publication references document nomenclature where the source supplies it. They do not establish evolutionary origins or the earliest fossil occurrence.

Specimen-level evidence, morphology, ecological research, phylogenetic studies, a comprehensive bibliography and a located literary passage have not yet been compiled for this record.

Dataset citation & attribution

This exact taxon in ChecklistBank · Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11

Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11; dataset 316321; doi:10.48580/dgz5n. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ . Retrieved 5 October 2026.

Stable key: col:776Q9. Classification follows source parent identifiers. English common names may vary by region.