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Parkes has or used to have 40 threatened animals within its boundaries. One of them is me, the Yellow-footed Rock-wallaby.
We took care to attach appropriate images that are as close to representative of each species as our resources and the availability of images allowed. However, we could not ensure perfect accuracy in every case. Some images show species that share the same genus but not at the species or subspecies level.
Yellow-footed Rock-wallaby
Petrogale xanthopus xanthopus
Status: Vulnerable
The Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act) lists threatened species under six categories:
Extinct, Extinct in the wild, Critically Endangered, Endangered, Vulnerable, Conservation dependent. Read more about these categories
Petrogale xanthopus xanthopus is found across 2 electorates.
The Yellow-footed Rock-wallaby is brightly coloured with a white cheek stripe and orange ears. It is fawn-grey above with a white side-stripe, and a brown and white hip-stripe. Its forearms, hindlegs and feet are a rich orange to bright yellow colour. This subspecies grows to 65 cm and can weigh up to 11 kg. It has an orange-brown tail with horizontal brown bars or stripes, which grows to 70 cm long.¹
Explore more about this species on the Atlas of Living Australia
Adverse fire regimes
Changed surface and groundwater regimes
Habitat loss, fragmentation and degradation
Invasive species and diseases
Explore more about the threats facing species on our Resources page.
- Needle Wattle (Acacia carneorum)
- Curly-bark Wattle (Acacia curranii)
- Androcalva procumbens (Androcalva procumbens)
- Atriplex infrequens (Atriplex infrequens)
- Austrostipa metatoris (Austrostipa metatoris)
- Austrostipa wakoolica (Austrostipa wakoolica)
- Bertya opponens (Bertya opponens)
- Mossgiel Daisy (Brachyscome papillosa)
- Ooline (Cadellia pentastylis)
- Callistemon pungens (Callistemon pungens)
- Moore's Burr-daisy (Calotis moorei)
- Bluegrass (Dichanthium setosum)
- a spike rush (Eleocharis obicis)
- Austral Pipewort (Eriocaulon australasicum)
- Salt Pipewort (Eriocaulon carsonii)
- Frankenia plicata (Frankenia plicata)
- Flame Spider-flower (Grevillea kennedyana)
- Lake Keepit Hakea (Hakea pulvinifera)
- Belson's Panic (Homopholis belsonii)
- Homoranthus darwinioides (Homoranthus darwinioides)
- Indigofera efoliata (Indigofera efoliata)
- Spiny Pepper-cress (Lepidium aschersonii)
- Winged Pepper-cress (Lepidium monoplocoides)
- Chariot Wheels (Maireana cheelii)
- a green alga (Nitella parooensis)
- Hawkweed (Picris evae)
- a leek-orchid (Prasophyllum sp. Wybong )
- Sclerolaena walkeri (Sclerolaena walkeri)
- Menindee Nightshade (Solanum karsense)
- Slender Darling-pea (Swainsona murrayana)
- Red Darling-pea (Swainsona plagiotropis)
- Yellow Swainson-pea (Swainsona pyrophila)
- Small Purple-pea (Swainsona recta)
- Austral Toadflax (Thesium australe)
- Tylophora linearis (Tylophora linearis)
- Xerothamnella parvifolia (Xerothamnella parvifolia)
- Ingram's Zieria (Zieria ingramii)
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