Bettongia

Bettongia gaimardi

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Macropodoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Olfactores Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Cladus: Eugnathostomata Cladus: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Cladus: Stegocephali Cladus: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Cladus: Synapsida Cladus: Eupelycosauria Cladus: Metopophora Cladus: Haptodontiformes Cladus: Sphenacomorpha Cladus: Sphenacodontia Cladus: Pantherapsida Cladus: Sphenacodontoidea Cladus: Therapsida Cladus: Theriodontia Cladus: Eutheriodontia Cladus: Cynodontia Cladus: Epicynodontia Cladus: Eucynodontia Cladus: Probainognathia Cladus: Prozostrodontia Cladus: Mammaliamorpha Cladus: Mammaliaformes Classis: Mammalia Cladus: Theriimorpha Cladus: Theriiformes Cladus: Trechnotheria Cladus: Cladotheria Cladus: Prototribosphenida Cladus: Zatheria Cladus: Tribosphenida Subclassis: Theria Cladus: Metatheria Cladus: Marsupialiformes Infraclassis: Marsupialia Superordo: Australidelphia Cladus: Eomarsupialia Ordo: Diprotodontia Subordo: Phalangerida Superfamilia: Macropodoidea

Familia: Potoroidae
Subfamilia: Bettongiinae
Genus: Bettongia
Species (4 + †4): B. gaimardi – B. lesueur – B. ogilbyi – B. tropica – †B. anhydra – †B. haoucharae – †B. penicillata – †B. pusilla

Name

Bettongia Gray, 1837: 584

• Type species: Bettongia setosa Gray, 1837, by subsequent designation of Thomas (1888: 104).

References

Primary references

• Gray, J.E. 1837. Description of some new or little known Mammalia, principally in the British Museum Collection. Magazine of natural history and Journal of zoology, botany, mineralogy, geology, and meteorology. N.S. 1: 577–587. BHL Reference page. 

Additional references

• McNamara, J.A. 1997. Some smaller macropod fossils of South Australia. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 117: 97–105. BHL Reference page. 
• Groves, C.P. 2005. Order Diprotodontia. Pp. 43–70 in Wilson, D.E. & Reeder, D.M. (eds.) . Mammal Species of the World: a taxonomic and geographic reference. 3rd edition. The Johns Hopkins University Press: Baltimore. 2 volumes. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. Reference page. 
• Jackson, S. & Groves, C. 2015. Taxonomy of Australian Mammals. CSIRO Publishing: Clayton. 529 pp. ISBN 978-1-486-30012-9. Reference page. 
• Newman-Martin, J., Travouillon, K.J., Warburton, N., Barham, M. & Blyth, A.J. 2025. A taxonomic revision of the Bettongia penicillata (Diprotodontia: Potoroidae) species complex and description of the subfossil species Bettongia haoucharae sp. nov. Zootaxa 5690(1): 1–69. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5690.1.1 Reference page. 

Vernacular names

• English: Bettong