Bettong
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Bettongs, species of the genus Bettongia, are potoroine marsupials once common in Australia. They are important ecosystem engineers displaced during the colonisation of the continent, and are vulnerable to threatening factors such as altered fire regimes, land clearing, pastoralism and introduced predatory species such as the fox and cat.
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Bettongs[1] | |
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Eastern bettong | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
Order: | Diprotodontia |
Family: | Potoroidae |
Subfamily: | Potoroinae |
Genus: | Bettongia J. E. Gray, 1837 |
Type species | |
Bettongia setosa J. E. Gray, 1837 | |
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