Bettongia anhydra
| Bettongia anhydra | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
| Order: | Diprotodontia |
| Family: | Potoroidae |
| Genus: | Bettongia |
| Species: | †B. anhydra
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| Binomial name | |
| †Bettongia anhydra H. H. Finlayson, 1957.[1] | |
Bettongia anhydra, also known as desert bettong, is a recently extinct species of
potoroine
marsupial.
Taxonomy
A skull collected in the 1930s that was placed as Bettongia penicillata anhydra, and later regarded as a synonym of Bettongia lesueur. The first description was by Hedley Herbert Finlayson, published in 1957.[1][2] An examination of morphology and molecular evidence proposed this specimen as the type of this new species. The type was collected from a fresh carcass at Lake Mackay in the western Northern Territory by Michael Terry in 1933.[3]
The phylogeny of the species separates this species and B. lesueur from lineages that emerged at a later period.[3]
Description
A species of genus Potorous species and those of the bettong genus.[3]
References
- ^ ISSN 0374-5481.
- ^ "Species Bettongia anhydra Finlayson, 1957 (extinct)". Australian Faunal Directory. biodiversity.org.au. Retrieved 17 March 2019.
- ^ ISSN 0022-2372.