The Macropodiformes , also known as macropods, are one of the three

suborder Order () is one of the eight major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy. It is classified between family and class. In biological classification, the order is a taxonomic rank used in the classification of organisms and recognized ...

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marsupial Marsupials are a diverse group of mammals belonging to the infraclass Marsupialia. They are natively found in Australasia, Wallacea, and the Americas. One of marsupials' unique features is their reproductive strategy: the young are born in a r ...

order

Diprotodontia Diprotodontia (, from Greek language, Greek "two forward teeth") is the largest extant order (biology), order of marsupials, with about 155 species, including the kangaroos, Wallaby, wallabies, Phalangeriformes, possums, koala, wombats, and many ...

. They may in fact be nested within one of the suborders,

Phalangeriformes Phalangeriformes is a paraphyletic suborder of about 70 species of small to medium-sized arboreal locomotion, arboreal marsupials native to Australia, New Guinea, and Sulawesi. The species are commonly known as possums, opossums, gliders, and ...

Kangaroos Kangaroos are marsupials from the family Macropodidae (macropods, meaning "large foot"). In common use, the term is used to describe the largest species from this family, the red kangaroo, as well as the antilopine kangaroo, eastern grey ...

wallabies A wallaby () is a small or middle-sized macropod native to Australia and New Guinea, with introduced populations in New Zealand, Hawaii, the United Kingdom and other countries. They belong to the same taxonomic family as kangaroos and som ...

and allies, bettongs, potoroos and rat kangaroos are all members of this suborder.

Classification

* Superfamily Macropodoidea **Family † Balbaridae: (basal quadrupedal

kangaroos Kangaroos are marsupials from the family Macropodidae (macropods, meaning "large foot"). In common use, the term is used to describe the largest species from this family, the red kangaroo, as well as the antilopine kangaroo, eastern grey ...

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Galanarla ''Galanarla'' is an extinct genus of quadrupedal kangaroos of Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising mainland Australia, the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, th ...

'' *** Genus †'' Nambaroo'' *** Genus †'' Wururoo'' *** Genus †'' Ganawamaya'' *** Genus †'' Balbaroo'' ** Family

Hypsiprymnodontidae The Hypsiprymnodontidae are a family of macropods, one of two families containing animals commonly referred to as rat-kangaroos. The single known extant genus and species in this family, the musky rat-kangaroo, ''Hypsiprymnodon moschatus'', o ...

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musky rat-kangaroo The musky rat-kangaroo (''Hypsiprymnodon moschatus'') is a small marsupial found only in the rainforests of northeastern Australia. First described in the later 19th century, the only other species are known from fossil specimens. They are simil ...

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Musky rat-kangaroo The musky rat-kangaroo (''Hypsiprymnodon moschatus'') is a small marsupial found only in the rainforests of northeastern Australia. First described in the later 19th century, the only other species are known from fossil specimens. They are simil ...

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Hypsiprymnodon karenblackae ''Hypsiprymnodon karenblackae'' is a fossil species describing a small marsupial extant in Australia during the Early to Middle Miocene Epoch. The material was collected at the Australian Fossil Mammal Sites (Riversleigh). The taxon was published ...

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Ekaltadeta ''Ekaltadeta'' is an extinct genus of marsupials related to the modern musky rat-kangaroos. ''Ekaltadeta'' was present in what is today the Riversleigh formations in Northern Queensland from the Late Oligocene to the Miocene, and the genus inc ...

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Ekaltadeta ima ''Ekaltadeta'' is an extinct genus of marsupials related to the modern musky rat-kangaroos. ''Ekaltadeta'' was present in what is today the Riversleigh formations in Northern Queensland from the Late Oligocene to the Miocene, and the genus inc ...

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Potoroidae Potoroidae is a family of marsupials, small Australian animals known as bettongs, potoroos, and rat-kangaroos. All are rabbit-sized, brown, jumping marsupials and resemble a large rodent or a very small wallaby. Taxonomy The potoroids are s ...

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potoroo Potoroo is a common name for species of ''Potorous'', a genus of smaller marsupials. They are allied to the Macropodiformes, the suborder of kangaroo, wallaby, and other rat-kangaroo genera and is the only genus in the tribe Potoroini. All three ...

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rat-kangaroo Potoroidae is a family of marsupials, small Australian animals known as bettongs, potoroos, and rat-kangaroos. All are rabbit-sized, brown, jumping marsupials and resemble a large rodent or a very small wallaby. Taxonomy The potoroids are s ...

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Palaeopotorous ''Palaeopotorous priscus'' is a fossil species of a diprotodont marsupial, known from specimens obtained in central Australia. The animal was similar to the modern species of the family Potoroidae, the potoroos and bettongs. Taxonomy The only ...

'' ***Genus †'' Gumardee'' ***Genus †'' Milliyowi'' *** Genus †'' Ngamaroo'' *** Subfamily

Potoroinae Potoroidae is a family of marsupials, small Australian animals known as Bettong, bettongs, Potoroo, potoroos, and rat-kangaroos. All are rabbit-sized, brown, jumping marsupials and resemble a large rodent or a very small wallaby. Taxonomy The ...

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Aepyprymnus The rufous rat-kangaroo or rufous bettong (''Aepyprymnus rufescens'') is a small, jumping, rat-like marsupial native to eastern Australia. It is the only species in the genus ''Aepyprymnus''. The largest member of the potoroo/bettong family ( Po ...

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Rufous rat-kangaroo The rufous rat-kangaroo or rufous bettong (''Aepyprymnus rufescens'') is a small, jumping, rat-like marsupial native to eastern Australia. It is the only species in the genus ''Aepyprymnus''. The largest member of the potoroo/bettong family ( Po ...

, ''Aepyprymnus rufescens'' **** Genus ''

Bettongia Bettongs, species of the genus ''Bettongia'', are potoroine marsupials once common in Australia. They are important ecosystem engineers displaced during the colonisation of the continent, and are vulnerable to threatening factors such as alter ...

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Eastern bettong The eastern bettong (''Bettongia gaimardi''), also known as the southern or Tasmanian bettong, is a small, hopping, rat-like mammal native to grassy forests of southeastern Australia and Tasmania. A member of the rat-kangaroo family ( Potoroidae) ...

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Boodie The boodie (''Bettongia lesueur''), also known as the burrowing bettong or Lesueur's rat-kangaroo, is a small, furry, rat-like mammal native to Australia. Once common throughout the continent, it is now restricted to a few coastal islands. A memb ...

, ''Bettongia lesueur'' *****

Woylie The woylie or brush-tailed bettong (''Bettongia penicillata'') is a small, near threatened mammal native to forests and shrubland of Australia. A member of the rat-kangaroo family ( Potoroidae), it moves by hopping and is active at night, diggi ...

, ''Bettongia penicillata'' *****

Northern bettong The northern bettong (''Bettongia tropica'') is a small, endangered, gerbil-like mammal native to forests in northeast Australia. A member of the rat-kangaroo family ( Potoroidae), it moves by hopping and lives in burrows, feeding at night on roo ...

, ''Bettongia tropica'' ***** †'' Bettongia moyesi'' **** Genus †''

Caloprymnus The desert rat-kangaroo (''Caloprymnus campestris''), also called the buff-nosed rat-kangaroo, plains rat-kangaroo or oolacunta,Tony Robinson & Tiana Forrest (2012A possible sighting of the Desert Rat-kangaroo or Oolacunta (''Caloprymnus campestr ...

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Desert rat-kangaroo The desert rat-kangaroo (''Caloprymnus campestris''), also called the buff-nosed rat-kangaroo, plains rat-kangaroo or oolacunta,Tony Robinson & Tiana Forrest (2012A possible sighting of the Desert Rat-kangaroo or Oolacunta (''Caloprymnus campestr ...

, ''Caloprymnus campestris'' **** Genus '' Potorous'' *****

Long-footed potoroo The long-footed potoroo (''Potorous longipes'') is a small marsupial found in southeastern Australia, restricted to an area around the coastal border between New South Wales and Victoria. It was first recorded in 1967 when an adult male was caug ...

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Broad-faced potoroo The broad-faced potoroo (''Potorous platyops'') is an extinct potoroid marsupial that was found in southwestern Australia. The first specimen was collected in 1839, and described by John Gould in 1844. Only a small number of specimens have been ...

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Long-nosed potoroo The long-nosed potoroo (''Potorous tridactylus'') is a small, hopping mammal native to forests and shrubland of southeastern Australia and Tasmania. A member of the potoroo and bettong family (Potoroidae), it lives alone and digs at night for fun ...

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Gilbert's potoroo Gilbert's potoroo or ngilkat (''Potorous gilbertii'') is Australia's most endangered marsupial, the rarest marsupial in the world, and one of the world's rarest critically endangered mammals, found in south-western Western Australia. It is a s ...

, ''Potorous gilbertii'' ** Family

Macropodidae Macropodidae is a Family (biology), family of marsupials that includes kangaroos, Wallaby, wallabies, tree-kangaroos, wallaroos, pademelons, quokkas, and several other groups. These genera are allied to the suborder Macropodiformes, containing ...

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and allies) *** Genus †'' Wabularoo'' *** Genus †'' Bulungamaya'' *** Genus ''

Ganguroo ''Ganguroo'' is a genus of fossil macropods found at Riversleigh in Australia, material dating from the Middle to Late Miocene Epoch. The type species In International_Code_of_Zoological_Nomenclature, zoological nomenclature, a type specie ...

'' *** Genus '' Cookeroo'' *** Genus †'' Watutia'' ** Subfamily

Lagostrophinae The banded hare-wallaby, mernine, or munning (''Lagostrophus fasciatus'') is a marsupial currently found on the islands of Bernier and Dorre off western Australia. Reintroduced populations have recently been established on islands and fenced m ...

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Lagostrophus The banded hare-wallaby, mernine, or munning (''Lagostrophus fasciatus'') is a marsupial currently found on the islands of Bernier and Dorre off western Australia. Reintroduced populations have recently been established on islands and fenced m ...

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Banded hare-wallaby The banded hare-wallaby, mernine, or munning (''Lagostrophus fasciatus'') is a marsupial currently found on the islands of Bernier and Dorre off western Australia. Reintroduced populations have recently been established on islands and fenced m ...

, ''Lagostrophus fasciatus'' *** Genus †'' Troposodon'' ** Subfamily † Sthenurinae *** Genus †'' Wanburoo'' *** Genus †'' Rhizosthenurus'' *** Genus '' Hadronomas'' *** Tribe Sthenurini **** Genus †'' Sthenurus'' **** Genus '' Eosthenurus'' *** Genus '' Metasthenurus'' *** Tribe Simosthenurini **** Genus '' Archaeosimos'' **** Genus '' Simosthenurus'' **** Genus †'' Procoptodon'' ** Subfamily

Macropodinae Macropodinae is a subfamily of marsupials in the family Macropodidae, which includes the kangaroos, wallabies, and related species. The subfamily includes about ten genera and at least 51 species. It includes all living members of the Macropodid ...

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Dorcopsoides ''Dorcopsoides'' is a genus of extinct species of kangaroo from the Pliocene of Australia.. Description ''Dorcopsoides'' was described in 1967 from the well-preserved lower jaw, skull fragments and occipital found in the Upper Miocene Alcoota F ...

'' *** Genus †'' Kurrabi'' *** Genus †'' Prionotemnus'' *** Genus †''

Congruus ''Congruus'' is an extinct genus of macropod known from the Late Pleistocene of Australia. There are two species, ''Congruus kitcheneri'', which was originally described as a species of '' Wallabia,'' and ''Congruus congruus''.McNamara JA. 199A n ...

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Protemnodon ''Protemnodon'' is an extinct genus of megafaunal macropodids that existed in Australia, Tasmania, and New Guinea in the Pliocene and Pleistocene. Members of this genus are also called giant kangaroos. Protemnodon tumbuna Taxonomy Recent analy ...

'' *** Genus †'' Baringa'' *** Genus †''

Bohra Bohra or Bora may refer to: Groups of people * Bohras, several groups in Tayyibi Isma'ilism *Alavi Bohras, a Tayyibi Isma'ili community in Gujarat, India *Dawoodi Bohra, a religious denomination within the Ismā'īlī branch of Shia Islam *Sulaym ...

'' *** Genus †'' Synaptodon'' *** Genus †'' Fissuridon'' *** Genus †'' Silvaroo'' *** Genus ''

Dendrolagus Tree-kangaroos are marsupials of the genus ''Dendrolagus'', adapted for arboreal locomotion. They inhabit the tropical rainforests of New Guinea and far northeastern Queensland, Australia along with some of the islands in the region. All tree- ...

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tree-kangaroo Tree-kangaroos are marsupials of the genus ''Dendrolagus'', adapted for arboreal locomotion. They inhabit the tropical rainforests of New Guinea and far northeastern Queensland, Australia along with some of the islands in the region. All tree- ...

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Dorcopsis ''Dorcopsis'' is a genus of marsupial in the family Macropodidae Macropodidae is a Family (biology), family of marsupials that includes kangaroos, Wallaby, wallabies, tree-kangaroos, wallaroos, pademelons, quokkas, and several other groups. ...

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Dorcopsulus ''Dorcopsulus'' is a genus of small marsupials in the family Macropodidae, known as forest wallabies. They are native to rainforests and montane forests of New Guinea New Guinea (; Hiri Motu: ''Niu Gini''; , fossilized , also known as Papu ...

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Lagorchestes ''Lagorchestes'' is a genus of small, rabbit-like mammals commonly known as hare-wallabies. It includes four species native to Australia and New Guinea, two of which are extinct. Hare-wallabies belong to the macropod family (Macropodidae) which i ...

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Macropus ''Macropus'', from the Ancient Greek words μάκρος (''mákros''), meaning "long", and πους (''pous''), meaning "foot", is a marsupial genus in the family Macropodidae. It has two extant species of large terrestrial kangaroos. Thirteen kn ...

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Onychogalea The nail-tail wallabies, of genus ''Onychogalea'', are three species of macropods, all found in Australia. Related to kangaroos and wallabies, they are smaller species distinguished by a horny spur at the end of their tail. The northern nail-tai ...

'' *** Genus '' Petrogale'': rock-wallabies *** Genus '' Setonix'' *** Genus ''

Thylogale Pademelons () are small marsupials in the genus ''Thylogale'', found in Australia, New Guinea, and surrounding islands. They are some of the smallest members of the macropod family, which includes the similar-looking but larger kangaroos and ...

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Wallabia The swamp wallaby (''Wallabia bicolor'') is a small macropod marsupial of eastern Australia. This wallaby is also commonly known as the black wallaby, with other names including black-tailed wallaby, fern wallaby, black pademelon, stinker (in Que ...

References

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