Bettongia

Bettongia penicillata

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Macropodiformes
Clade: Marsupialiformes Cohors: Marsupialia Cladus: Australidelphia Cladus: Eomarsupialia Ordo: Diprotodontia Subordo: Macropodiformes

Familia: Potoroidae
Genus: Bettongia
Species (5): B. gaimardi – B. lesueur – B. penicillata – B. tropica – †B. pusilla

Name

Bettongia Gray, 1837

Type species: B. setosa Gray, 1837

References

• McNamara, J.A. 1997: Some smaller macropod fossils of South Australia. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 117: 97–105.
• Bettongia in Mammal Species of the World.
  Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn M. (Editors) 2005. Mammal Species of the World – A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. Third edition. ISBN 0-8018-8221-4.
• Mag. Nat. Hist. [Charlesworth's], 1: 584.
• Wilson, D.E. & Reeder, D.M. (eds.)  2005. Mammal Species of the World: a taxonomic and geographic reference. 3rd edition. The Johns Hopkins University Press: Baltimore. 2 volumes. 2142 pp. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. Reference page. 

Vernacular names

English: bettong