Potoroidae is a family of marsupials, small Australian animals known as bettongs, potoroos, and rat-kangaroos. All are rabbit-sized, brown, jumping marsupials and resemble a large rodent or a very small wallaby.
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Potoroidae is a family of marsupials, small Australian animals known as bettongs, potoroos, and rat-kangaroos. All are rabbit-sized, brown, jumping marsupials...
species is Ekaltadeta ima. It was originally put within the family of Potoroidae, but like the musky rat-kangaroo, the genus was moved to the family Hypsiprymnodontidae...
settlement. A genus of smaller macropodids, it gives its name to the family Potoroidae. The species of Potorous have been greatly impacted or become extinct...
Mammals are divided into two subclasses based on reproductive techniques: egg laying mammals (the monotremes), and live birth mammals. The second subclass...
has 72 species in 3 families: Hypsiprymnodontidae, Macropodidae, and Potoroidae, and includes kangaroos, wallabies, bettongs, potoroos, and rat-kangaroos...
extinct. A few insectivorous and omnivorous diprotodonts are known, and the Potoroidae are almost unique among vertebrates in being largely fungivorous, but...
restricted to a few coastal islands. A member of the rat-kangaroo family (Potoroidae), it lives in burrows and is active at night when it forages for fungi...
Hypsiprymnodontidae, Macropodidae, and Potoroidae. Hypsiprymnodontidae contains a single species and Potoroidae contains eight species in three extant...
forests and shrubland of Australia. A member of the rat-kangaroo family (Potoroidae), it moves by hopping and is active at night, digging for fungi to eat...
Notably, all three marsupial glider groups belong to this suborder. Potoroidae. A marsupial group found in Australia that includes the bettongs and the...
arrangement of modern and fossil taxa of Bettongia may be summarised as family Potoroidae: subfamily †Bulungamayinae subfamily †Palaeopotoroinae subfamily Potoroinae...
implicated in the extinction and decline of populations of the family Potoroidae, including the extinction of the desert rat-kangaroo. The spread of the...
member; the Potoroidae, with 10 species; and the Macropodidae which had 53 members in Australia, but some species are extinct. The Potoroidae include the...
Phalangeriformes has come to replace Phalangerida but does not include the potoroos (Potoroidae), kangaroos and wallabies (Macropodidae) or the musky rat-kangaroo (Hypsiprymnodontidae)...
of several native Australian species, particularly those of the family Potoroidae, including the desert rat-kangaroo. The spread of red foxes across the...
Australia. The animal was similar to the modern species of the family Potoroidae, the potoroos and bettongs. The only known species of its genus, Palaeopotorous...
Phylogeny in the Giant Extinct Rat Kangaroo Ekaltadeta (Propleopinae, Potoroidae, Marsupialia)". Journal of Paleontology. 70 (4): 681–690. doi:10.1017/S0022336000023635...
wellingtonensis Genus †Jackmahoneyi †Jackmahoneyi toxoniensis Family Potoroidae: (bettongs, potoroos, and rat-kangaroos) Genus †Wakiewakie Genus †Purtia...
macropodiformes Family Macropodidae: kangaroos, wallabies, and relatives Family Potoroidae: potoroos, rat kangaroos, bettongs Family Hypsiprymnodontidae: musky rat-kangaroo...
This is a list of mammals of South Australia. It includes all mammals recorded in South Australia since European settlement, including some known only...
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