Bettongini

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Bettongini
Example species
Bettongia tropica
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Infraclass: Marsupialia
Order: Diprotodontia
Family: Potoroidae
Subfamily: Potoroinae
Tribe: Bettongini
Flannery and Archer 1987[1]

Bettongini is a tribe of mammals. It contains two extant genera and one recently extinct one:[2]

References

Further reading

  • Flannery, T. F.; Archer, M. (1987). "Bettongia moyesi, a new and plesiomorphic kangaroo (Marsupialia: Potoroidea) from Miocene sediments of northwestern Queensland". Possums and Opossums: Studies in Evolution. pp. 759–767. ISBN 978-0-949324-05-4.