Godman's Rock-wallaby

Taxobox
name = Godman's Rock-wallabyMSW3 Groves|pages=67]
status = LC
status_system = iucn3.1
status_ref = [IUCN2006|assessors=Australasian Marsupial & Monotreme Specialist Group|year=1996|id=41514|title=Petrogale godmani|downloaded=10 May 2006 ]
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
subclassis = Marsupialia
ordo = Diprotodontia
familia = Macropodidae
genus = "Petrogale"
species = "P. godmani"
binomial = "Petrogale godmani"
binomial_authority = Thomas, 1923

Godman's Rock-wallaby ("Petrogale godmani") is a diprotodont marsupial, and a rather typical rock-wallaby. It is found in northern and north-eastern Queensland, Australia. This rock-wallaby is found in low open forest, open scrub, or montane regions, often near the coast. It shelters in rocky terrain adjacent to feeding areas. Godman's Rock-wallaby is a noctidiurnal gregarious territorial folivore.

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* [http://eriss.erin.gov.au/cgi-bin/abrs/fauna/details.pl?pstrVol=MARSUPIALIA;pstrTaxa=426;pstrChecklistMode=1 Australian Government, Department of the Environment and Heritage, Australian Biological Resources study]