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Taxon: Family Potoroidae Gray, 1821 - rat-kangaroos (mammal)
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Authorship

SN2000 author citation (Gray, 1821) Flannery et al., 1984
Original name Gray, 1821:308.
Subsequent rank Flannery, Archer & Plane, 1984:1087-1097.

Types

Nominotypical taxon [ICZN]Potoroini (Tribe) Gray, 1821

Variants

Different rankPotoroinae (Subfamily) Gray, 1821
Different rankPotoroinae (Subfamily) Gray, 1821 Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997

Synonyms

Synonymous nameHypsiprymnodontinae (Subfamily)
InMacropodidae (Family) Gray, 1821 Ref: G.G. Simpson, 1945

Vernacular Names (Dutch)

Full nameratkangoeroes
kangoeroeratten

Vernacular Names (English)

Full namerat-kangaroos Ref: G.B. Corbet & J.E. Hill, 1991
potoroos Ref: G.B. Corbet & J.E. Hill, 1991
bettongs Ref: G.B. Corbet & J.E. Hill, 1991
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