Bettong

Bettongs[1]
Eastern Bettong
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Infraclass: Marsupialia
Order: Diprotodontia
Family: Potoroidae
Subfamily: Potoroinae
Genus: Bettongia
Gray, 1837
Type species
Bettongia setosa
Gray, 1837
Species

The bettongs are species of the genus Bettongia, sometimes referred to as rat-kangaroos. Five species are recognised:[1]

The Rufous Rat-kangaroo (Aepyprymnus rufescens) is sometimes referred to as a bettong (Rufous Bettong), but this is not strictly correct.

References

  1. ^ a b Groves, C. (2005). Wilson, D. E., & Reeder, D. M, eds. ed. Mammal Species of the World (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 57-58. OCLC 62265494. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3. 
  2. ^ [Flannery, T.F. and Archer, M, 1987. Bettongia moyesi, a new and plesiomorphic kangaroo (Marsupialia: Potoridae) from Miocene sediments of northwestern Queensland. ‘Possums and Opossums: Studies in Evolution’, Pp.759-67. ed. M. Archer. Surrey Beatty & Sons and the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales, Sydney http://www.create.unsw.edu.au/research/files/!Flannery%20&%20Archer%20(1987)%20Bettongia%20moyesi,%20A%20NEW%20AND%20PLESIOMORPHIC%20KANGAROO%20%20(MARSUPIALIA%20POTOROIDAE)%20FROM%20MIOCENE%20SEDIMENTS%20OF%20NORTHWESTERN%20QUEENSLAND.pdf]