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Taxon: Genus Potorous Desmarest, 1804 - potoroos (mammal)
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Authorship

Original name Desmarest, 1804:20.
Original rank
Original spelling

Types

Type ofPotoroini (Tribe) Gray, 1821
Type, by original designationPotorous murina (Cuvier, 1798)
Type, by synonymyPotorous tridactylus (Kerr, in Linnaeus, 1792)

Variants

Different spellingPotoroiis (Genus) Rafinesque, 1815 Ref: S.A. Neave (ed.), [2005]: [19 Dec 2008].
Different spellingPotorus (Genus) Gray, 1821 Ref: S.A. Neave (ed.), [2005]: [19 Dec 2008].

Synonyms

Synonymous nameHypsiprymnus (Genus) Illiger, 1811 Ref: D.E. Wilson & D.M. Reeder (eds.), 1993
IncludingPotoroops (Genus)

Vernacular Names (Dutch)

Full namepotoroes

Vernacular Names (English)

Full namepotoroos Ref: G.B. Corbet & J.E. Hill, 1991
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