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Definition of Genus bettongia
1. Noun. Jerboa kangaroo.
Generic synonyms: Mammal Genus
Group relationships: Potoroinae, Subfamily Potoroinae
Member holonyms: Bettong, Jerboa Kangaroo, Kangaroo Jerboa
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Bettongia
Literary usage of Genus bettongia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Catalogue of Mammalia in the Indian Museum, Calcutta by John Anderson, William Lutley Sclater, Indian Museum (1891)
"103. Distribution.—Eastern Australia. a. Skin g No history. Genus BETTONGIA.
Bettongia, Gray Charles«. Mag. NH, i, p. 584 (1837). Bettongia cuniculus. ..."
2. Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases, and Usages by Edward Ellis Morris (1898)
"(3) A third genus (Bettongia, qv) includes the Prehensile- tailed Rat-Kangaroos
and has four species, distributed in Australia and Tasmania— Brush-tailed ..."
3. The Collected Scientific Papers of the Late Alfred Henry Garrod by Alfred Henry Garrod, William Alexander Forbes (1881)
"These ridges differ considerably from those observed in the corresponding tooth
of the genus Bettongia ..."
4. The Illustrated Natural History by John George Wood (1865)
"... as it is sometimes called, affords an excellent example of the genus Bettongia,
in which are collected a small group of ..."
5. A Natural History of the Mammalia by George Robert Waterhouse (1846)
"... in the specimens in question) was deceived as to the section to which they
belonged, and placed them in the genus Bettongia, and founded a new species, ..."
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