Herbert's rock-wallaby (''Petrogale herberti'') is a member of a group of seven very closely related rock-wallabies found in northeastern

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, 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 Brisbane ( ) is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Queensland, and the third-most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of approximately 2.6 million. Brisbane lies at the centre of the South ...

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.

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Macropods Mammals of Queensland Marsupials of Australia Mammals described in 1926 Taxa named by Oldfield Thomas {{Diprotodont-stub