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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER DIPROTODONTIA
--> SUBORDER MACROPODIFORMES
--> FAMILY Potoroidae
--> GENUS Bettongia
SPECIES Bettongia tropica
| Author: | Wakefield, 1967. | | Citation: | Victorian Nat., 84: 15. | | Common Name: | Northern Bettong | | Type Locality: | Australia, Queensland, Mt. Spurgeon. | | Distribution: | E Queensland: Windsor and Carbine Tablelands, Lamb Range, and Paluma. | | Status: | CITES – Appendix I; U.S. ESA and IUCN – Endangered. | | Comments: | Sharman et al. (1980) believed that tropica is not a distinct species but rather that it barely differs from B. penicillata. However, it differs in several reproductive parameters (Smith, 1998), and is now always treated as a distinct species. Its distribution, habitat parameters and phylogeography are given by Pope et al. (2000). |
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