Potoroidae is a family of marsupials, small Australian animals known as bettongs, potoroos, and rat-kangaroos. All are rabbit-sized, brown, jumping marsupials...
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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...
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List of diprotodonts (section Potoroidae)
has 72 species in 3 families: Hypsiprymnodontidae, Macropodidae, and Potoroidae, and includes kangaroos, wallabies, bettongs, potoroos, and rat-kangaroos...
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Mammals are divided into two subclasses based on reproductive techniques: egg laying mammals (the monotremes), and live birth mammals. The second subclass...
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extinct. A few insectivorous and omnivorous diprotodonts are known, and the Potoroidae are almost unique among vertebrates in being largely fungivorous, but...
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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...
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List of macropodiformes (section Potoroidae)
Hypsiprymnodontidae, Macropodidae, and Potoroidae. Hypsiprymnodontidae contains a single species and Potoroidae contains eight species in three extant...
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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...
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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...
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distribution of the desert rat-kangaroo Caloprymnus campestris (Marsupialia: Potoroidae). The South Australian Naturalist, 72(1) 1997. Wikimedia Commons has media...
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Macropodidae (includes wallabies) Potoroidae Hypsiprymnodontidae...
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of several native Australian species, particularly those of the family Potoroidae, including the desert rat-kangaroo. The spread of red foxes across the...
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Notably, all three marsupial glider groups belong to this suborder. Potoroidae. A marsupial group found in Australia that includes the bettongs and the...
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Phylogeny in the Giant Extinct Rat Kangaroo Ekaltadeta (Propleopinae, Potoroidae, Marsupialia)". Journal of Paleontology. 70 (4): 681–690. doi:10.1017/S0022336000023635...
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genus Aepyprymnus. The largest member of the potoroo/bettong family (Potoroidae), it is about the size of a rabbit. The rufous rat-kangaroo is active...
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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...
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Phalangeriformes has come to replace Phalangerida but does not include the potoroos (Potoroidae), kangaroos and wallabies (Macropodidae) or the musky rat-kangaroo (Hypsiprymnodontidae)...
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Macropodidae (includes wallabies) Potoroidae Hypsiprymnodontidae...
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implicated in the extinction and decline of populations of the family Potoroidae, including the extinction of the desert rat-kangaroo. The spread of the...
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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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Macropodidae (includes wallabies) Potoroidae Hypsiprymnodontidae...
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Macropodidae (includes wallabies) Potoroidae Hypsiprymnodontidae...
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member; the Potoroidae, with 10 species; and the Macropodidae which had 53 members in Australia, but some species are extinct. The Potoroidae include the...
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Macropodidae (includes wallabies) Potoroidae Hypsiprymnodontidae...
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macropodiformes Family Macropodidae: kangaroos, wallabies, and relatives Family Potoroidae: potoroos, rat kangaroos, bettongs Family Hypsiprymnodontidae: musky rat-kangaroo...
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southeastern Australia and Tasmania. A member of the potoroo and bettong family (Potoroidae), it lives alone and digs at night for fungi, roots, or small insects...
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Macropodidae (includes wallabies) Potoroidae Hypsiprymnodontidae...
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Genus Wallabia Swamp wallaby or black wallaby (Wallabia bicolor) Family Potoroidae Genus Aepyprymnus Rufous rat-kangaroo (Aepyprymnus rufescens) Genus Bettongia...
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arrangement of modern and fossil taxa of Bettongia may be summarised as family Potoroidae: subfamily †Bulungamayinae subfamily †Palaeopotoroinae subfamily Potoroinae...
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Macropodidae (includes wallabies) Potoroidae Hypsiprymnodontidae...
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