Their foraging also disperse s plant seeds and fungal spores facilitating plant recruitment. Two sub-species are recognised — the Brush-tailed Bettong Bettongia penicillata penicillata in eastern Australia and the Woylie Bettongia penicillata ogilbyi in Western Australia. However, the historical geographical relationship of these sub-species is uncertain and their common names are used interchangeably.
Bettongia penicillata penicillata is now presumed extinct, while Bettongia penicillata ogilbyi is restricted to three remnant populations in southwest Western Australia — Kingston and Perup in the Upper Warren and Dryandra Woodland. We need your help to save Australia's endangered animals. Your tax-deductible donation will make a difference where it counts - in the field.
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Home Wildlife Woylie Brush-tailed Bettong. Endemic to Australia, two subspecies are recognised, Bettongia penicillata penicillata, which occurred in south-eastern Australia, and is now considered extinct, and Bettongia penicillata ogilbyi which currently occurs as natural populations at Dryandra Woodland, and at Tutanning Nature Reserve in southwest Australia.
The Woylie is now restricted to forests, open woodlands, shrublands with a dense, low understory of tussock grasses or woody scrub. Woylies are mostly solitary and are nocturnal. Their diet consists primarily of the fruiting bodies of underground fungi, supplemented by bulbs, tubers, seeds, insects and resin, probably from Hakea shrubs. This wordcloud illustrates the threats facing this species. The size of each word indicates the extent of a species range that is affected by that threat larger size means a greater area is affected.
The colour of the word indicates how much that threat impacts the species darker shades of red mean the threat is more severe. Again this would impact the all-important balance for hosts and parasites, so we must look carefully at this approach. A paper on the research was published in Trends in Parasitology and can be viewed here. Posted on:. Share this article:. Get in Touch If you'd like to learn more about anything discussed in this article, please contact our media team.
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