Potorous tridactylus

(Kerr, 1792)

Long-nosed Potoroo

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Marsupialia
Superorder : Australidelphia
Order : Diprotodontia
Suborder : Macropodiformes
Superfamily : Macropodoidea
Family : Potoroidae
Subfamily : Potoroinae
Tribe : Potoroini
Genus : Potorous

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Kerr, R. 1792. The Animal Kingdom, or Zoological System of the celebrated Sir Charles Linnaeus. Class I. Mammalia. A. Strahan, T. Cadell, and W. Creech, Edinburgh, 462 pp.

Original name as described

Didelphis tridactyla

Other common names

Long-nosed Rat-kangaroo

Type locality

"Botany Bay [= Sydney], New South Wales," Australia.

Biogeographic realm

Australasia

Country distribution

Australia

Taxonomy notes

includes the recently described waddahyamin as a synonym; the genus Potorous was recently split into three distinct genera (Potorous, Potoroops, and the recently described Rossignolius); the new generic arrangment and species names were put forth by R. T. Hoser, who's names are currently under scrutiny and should be tested by further studies before use

Taxonomy notes citation

Hoser, R. T. (2020). Small, easily overlooked and in decline. Potoroos in Eastern Australia. A formal division of the genus Potorous Desmarest, 1804 (Marsupialia Potoroidae) and the description of a new species from south-east Queensland. Australasian Journal of Herpetology, 42, 31-37.

IUCN Red List status

Near Threatened

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