The long-footed potoroo (Potorous longipes) is a small marsupial found in southeastern Australia, restricted to an area around the coastal border between...
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especially the long-footed potoroo Potorous longipes (endangered) and P. gilbertii (critically endangered). The broad-faced potoroo P. platyops disappeared...
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(Gilbert's potoroo) P. longipes (long-footed potoroo) P. platyops (broad-faced potoroo), † modern extinction P. tridactylus (long-nosed potoroo) Potorous...
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Gilbert's potoroo or ngilkat (Potorous gilbertii) is Australia's most endangered marsupial, the rarest marsupial in the world, and one of the world's...
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endangered Gilbert's potoroo. A quokka weighs 2.5 to 5.0 kg (5+1⁄2 to 11 lb) and is 40 to 54 cm (16 to 21 in) long with a 25-to-30 cm-long (9.8-to-12 in) tail...
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Potorous Long-footed potoroo, Potorous longipes †Broad-faced potoroo, Potorous platyops Long-nosed potoroo, Potorous tridactylus Gilbert's potoroo, Potorous...
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the dry Australian bush. One example of a potoroo that sustains itself on fungi is the long-footed potoroo. This animal's diet is almost entirely made...
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Petrogale persephone Rothschild's rock-wallaby, Petrogale rothschildi Yellow-footed rock-wallaby, Petrogale xanthopus P. lateralis/penicillata species-group...
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Phalangeriformes (the possums and gliders) and Macropodiformes (kangaroos, potoroos, wallabies and the musky rat-kangaroo). Note: this classification is based...
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Northern bettong (B. tropica) Potorous (potoroos) Long-footed potoroo (P. longipes) Long-nosed potoroo (P. tridactylus) Gilbert's potoroo (P. gilbertii)...
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Gilbert's potoroo, Potorous gilbertii CR Long-footed potoroo, Potorous longipes EN Broad-faced potoroo, Potorous platyops EX - extinct Long-nosed potoroo, Potorous...
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semi-arid plains that are better suited to the larger, leaner, and more fleet-footed kangaroos. They also can be found on the island of New Guinea. Wallabies...
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Macropodidae: (kangaroos, wallabies and allies) Family Potoroidae: (bettongs, potoroos, and rat-kangaroos) Family Hypsiprymnodontidae: (musky rat-kangaroo) †...
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include those cited or coined by Gilbert, Gould and Ellis Troughton, honey and long-snouted phalanger, tait and noolbenger in the local languages, or the descriptive...
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40 kg (37 to 88 lb). They have a powerful tail that is over 1 m (3 ft 3 in) long in adult males. Large males of this species are more heavily built and muscled...
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birth to single young. A newborn brushtail possum is only 1.5 cm (0.6 in) long and weighs only 2 g (0.07 oz). As usual for marsupials, the newborn may climb...
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by genetic analysis in 2019. This species is a very large kangaroo with long, pointed ears and a square shaped muzzle (snout/nose). They are sexually...
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an orphaned tree-kangaroo joey was transferred to the pouch of a yellow-footed rock-wallaby when his mother was killed by a falling branch. The joey survived...
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estimated to have diverged from other Australian marsupials relatively early, as long as 40 million years ago, while some estimates place divergence at around...
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broad-faced potoroo is almost entirely unknown, but unlike its relatives, such as the long-nosed potoroo Potorous tridactylus and long-footed Potorous longipes...
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Kangaroos are marsupials from the family Macropodidae (macropods, meaning "large foot"). In common use the term is used to describe the largest species from this...
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thick scrubland or dense forested undergrowth. It also makes tunnels through long grasses and bushes in swampy country.[citation needed] Pademelon meat used...
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related to Petrogale xanthopus. A female yellow-footed rock-wallaby with joey, the Adelaide Zoo A yellow-footed rock-wallaby in the wild at Warren gorge in...
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wallabies. They share many characteristics with others of the genus, but have longer and more slender limbs like the larger species of the genus. The fur is...
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gilesi (paucident planigale) Potorous longipes (long-footed potoroo) Potorous tridactylus (long-nosed potoroo) Pseudocheirus peregrinus (common ringtail possum)...
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estimated to have diverged ~1 million years ago, and may have originated from long term geographic isolation. The early-mid Pleistocene saw an uplifting of...
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quoll, mainland Australia's largest marsupial carnivore, and the long-footed potoroo, Victoria's rarest marsupial. Campaigns to protect the area from...
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Northern bettong (B. tropica) Potorous (potoroos) Long-footed potoroo (P. longipes) Long-nosed potoroo (P. tridactylus) Gilbert's potoroo (P. gilbertii)...
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Gilbert's potoroo (Potorous gilbertii) Long-footed potoroo (Potorous longipes) †Broad-faced potoroo (Potorous platyops) Long-nosed potoroo (Potorous tridactylus)...
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Petrogale persephone Rothschild's rock-wallaby, Petrogale rothschildi Yellow-footed rock-wallaby, Petrogale xanthopus P. lateralis/penicillata species group...
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