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FAMILY Potoroidae

Author:Gray, 1821.
Citation:London Med. Repos., 15: 308.
Comments:Separated from Macropodidae by Archer and Bartholamai (1978), but Burk et al. (1998) proposed to reunite them on the basis that they form a clade relative to Hypsiprymnodon. Burk and Springer (2000) found that Potorous is strongly distinct from the other genera and separated from them little, if at all, later than the divergence of the Macropodidae; consequently, they considered the monophyly of the Potoroidae in doubt.
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GENUS Aepyprymnus

SPECIES rufescens

GENUS Bettongia

SPECIES gaimardi

SPECIES lesueur

SPECIES penicillata

SPECIES tropica

GENUS Caloprymnus

SPECIES campestris

GENUS Potorous

SPECIES gilbertii

SPECIES longipes

SPECIES platyops

SPECIES tridactylus

SUBSPECIES tridactylus

SUBSPECIES apicalis

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