🦋 Family

Potoroidae

4 species · Animals

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Animalia › Chordata › Mammalia › Diprotodontia › Potoroidae

Bettongia gaimardi (Desmarest, 1822)

The eastern bettong is a small pouch-bearing marsupial native to southeastern Australia and Tasmania.

Bettongia penicillata Gray, 1837

Bettongia penicillata, the woylie, is a small potoroine marsupial native to Australia that acts as an ecosystem engineer through its foraging digging.

Aepyprymnus rufescens (Gray, 1837)

Aepyprymnus rufescens is the largest extant potoroine marsupial, found in northeastern Australian coastal regions.

Potorous tridactylus (Kerr, 1792)

Potorous tridactylus, the long-nosed potoroo, is a small threatened marsupial native to southeastern Australia and Tasmania.

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Macropodidae 24 species Phalangeridae 8 species Pseudocheiridae 6 species Petauridae 4 species Burramyidae 2 species Vombatidae 2 species Acrobatidae 1 species Hypsiprymnodontidae 1 species

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