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Bettongia penicillata penicillata (woylie, brush-tailed bettong)
| Subject: | Bettongia penicillata penicillata (woylie, brush-tailed bettong)
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Plate in Gould's Mammals of Australia volume 3. The title is the caption in that work, and may be a synonym. The file was uploaded with the current name in the category, a crop and other adjustments were made to the image. The caption and other details were removed.
Date 1863
Source
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/112962
The mammals of Australia. volume and plate in title
Author John Gould, Henry Constantine Richter
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bettongia_penicillata_Gould_Mamm_Aust_vol_2_plate_61.jpg
Bettongia penicillata - woylie, brush-tailed bettong, brush-tailed rat kangaroo
The woylie, also known as the brush-tailed bettong (Bettongia penicillata), is a small, critically endangered marsupial native to Australia. It has grey-brown fur, a dark-colored tail with a black brush. Woylies are nocturnal and their diet primarily consists of fungi. The common name “woylie” is derived from the Nyungar language, where it is known as "walyu". There were two subspecies: B. p. ogilbyi in the west (now extinct) and B. p. penicillata in the southeast.
Order: Diprotodontia
Family: Potoroidae
Genus: Bettongia
Species: Bettongia penicillata Gray, 1837. |
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