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Potoroidae is a
family of marsupials,
small Australian animals known as bettongs, potoroos, and rat-kangaroos. All are rabbit-sized, brown,
jumping marsupials...
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restricted to a few
coastal islands. A
member of the rat-kangaroo
family (
Potoroidae), it
lives in
burrows and is
active at
night when it
forages for fungi...
- extinct. A few
insectivorous and
omnivorous diprotodonts are known, and the
Potoroidae are
almost unique among vertebrates in
being largely fungivorous, but...
- badaru. A
genus of
smaller macropodids, it
gives its name to the
family Potoroidae. The
species of
Potorous have been
greatly impacted or
become extinct...
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forests and
shrubland of Australia. A
member of the rat-kangaroo
family (
Potoroidae), it
moves by
hopping and is
active at night,
digging for
fungi to eat...
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species is
Ekaltadeta ima. It was
originally put
within the
family of
Potoroidae, but like the
musky rat-kangaroo, the
genus was
moved to the
family Hypsiprymnodontidae...
- Hypsiprymnodontidae, Macropodidae, and
Potoroidae.
Hypsiprymnodontidae contains a
single species and
Potoroidae contains eight species in
three extant...
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Mammals are
divided into two
subclasses based on
reproductive techniques: egg
laying mammals (the monotremes), and live
birth mammals. The
second subclass...
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distribution of the
desert rat-kangaroo
Caloprymnus campestris (Marsupialia:
Potoroidae). The
South Australian Naturalist, 72(1) 1997.
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Phalangeriformes has come to
replace Phalangerida but does not
include the
potoroos (
Potoroidae),
kangaroos and
wallabies (Macropodidae) or the
musky rat-kangaroo (Hypsiprymnodontidae)...
