APC
Lower Risk (Least Concern)
Stronghold population
False
Regionally significant/rationale
False
Restricted distribution/rationale
False
Overall distribution
Eastern Australia.
Local distribution
Widespread in dry and wet eucalypt forest, heath, rainforest, wetlands and riparian zones. Prefers a dense understorey
Known location
Runaway Bay, Biggera Waters, Southport, Pimpama, Coombabah, Worongary, Tugun, Pimpama, Currumbin Val
Other locality
Widespread and probably moderately common where thick vegetation remains. Represented by two forms: the common mainland form, and an island sub-species, the golden swamp wallaby (M. bicolor welsbyi), which is brightly coloured and confined to islands, but with one recent record from Nerang
General ecology
Riparian forest, rainforest, heath, thick vegetation in gullies, thickets in eucalypt forest.
Specific ecology
Thick undergrowth.
Habitat comment
The swamp wallaby can survive in partly fragmented bushland where thick vegetation remains. The island subspecies is unique and of great conservation interest. One golden swamp wallaby has been reorded from the mainland, at Nerang. It had presumably swum and hopped from South Stradbroke Island.
Management
The golden swamp wallaby has conservation significance.
Community type
Moderately common where thick vegetation remains; with a unique island subspecies of high conservation significance.
