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Desert Bettong

Bettongia anhydra

Classification

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.

Distribution

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