Bettongia anhydra

Bettongia anhydra is a recently extinct species of potoroine marsupial.

Bettongia anhydra
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Infraclass: Marsupialia
Order: Diprotodontia
Family: Potoroidae
Genus: Bettongia
Species:
B. anhydra
Binomial name
Bettongia anhydra
H. H. Finlayson, 1957.[1]

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.[1][2] An examination of morphology and molecular evidence proposed this specimen as the type of this new species. The type was collected from a fresh carcass at Lake Mackay in the western Northern Territory by Michael Terry in 1933.[3]

The phylogeny of the species separates this species and B. lesueur from lineages that emerged at a later period.[3]

Description

A species of genus Bettongia, small to medium sized mammals that are usually nocturnal and fungivorous. The dentary of Bettongia anhydra resembles that of the Potorous species and those of the bettong genus.[3]

gollark: Perhaps one day, they shall finally see the light... the green light.
gollark: QP2tC is already fairly green so it has an advantage.
gollark: AR now!
gollark: QP2tC xx:11:35 next! AR at xx:09:35.
gollark: (The ToD thing isn't entirely accurate, so I'm kind of nervous)

References
  1. Finlayson, H.H. (July 1957). "Preliminary description of two new forms of Bettongia (Marsupialia)". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 10 (115): 552–554. doi:10.1080/00222935708655996. ISSN 0374-5481.
  2. "Species Bettongia anhydra Finlayson, 1957 (extinct)". Australian Faunal Directory. biodiversity.org.au. Retrieved 17 March 2019.
  3. Prideaux, G.J.; Baynes, A.; Bunce, M.; Aplin, K.P.; Haouchar, D.; McDowell, M.C. (25 April 2015). "Morphological and molecular evidence supports specific recognition of the recently extinct Bettongia anhydra (Marsupialia: Macropodidae)". Journal of Mammalogy. 96 (2): 287–296. doi:10.1093/jmammal/gyv006. ISSN 0022-2372.
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