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Brush-tailed Bettong
Bettongia penicillata Gray, 1837
Also calledBettong a queue en brosse (fra) · Bettongie à queue touffue (fra) · Biirstenrattenkanguru (deu) · Bürstenrattenkänguru (deu) · Bürstenschwanz-Rattenkänguru (deu) · Canguro-rata Colipeludo (spa) · Kangourou-rat à queue touffue (fra) · Kanguroszczur (pol) · Südliches Bürstenkänguru (deu)
First described in: Mag. Nat. Hist. [Charlesworth's] vol.1 p.584
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
materials_examined
MZUT T 512 (790); mount; female ad.; Western Australia, Australia; 1845; purchased by G. A. Frank.
Revised catalogue of monotremes and marsupials in the historic mammal collection housed at Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali of Torino, Italy
conservation
Conservation: CITES – Appendix I; U. S. ESA – Endangered; IUCN – Extinct as B. p. penicillata, otherwise Lower Risk (conservation dependent).
Order Diprotodontia
discussion
Discussion: Does not include tropica, contra Sharman et al. (1980).
Order Diprotodontia
distribution
Distribution: SW Western Australia, S South Australia including St. Francis Isl, NW Victoria, C New South Wales.
Order Diprotodontia
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Every page naming Bettongia penicillata in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2440026.