This articleneeds additional citations forverification. Please helpimprove this article byadding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Hypsiprymnodontidae" – news ·newspapers ·books ·scholar ·JSTOR(September 2014) (Learn how and when to remove this message) |
| Hypsiprymnodontidae | |
|---|---|
| Hypsiprymnodon moschatus | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
| Order: | Diprotodontia |
| Superfamily: | Macropodoidea |
| Family: | Hypsiprymnodontidae Collett, 1877 |
| Subfamilies and genera | |
TheHypsiprymnodontidae/ˌhɪpsɪˌprɪmnoʊdɒnˈtaɪdiː/ are afamily ofmacropods, one of two families containing animals commonly referred to as rat-kangaroos. Thesingle known extant genus and species in this family, themusky rat-kangaroo,Hypsiprymnodon moschatus, occurs in northernAustralia. During thePleistocene, this family included themegafauna genusPropleopus.
This article about adiprotodont is astub. You can help Wikipedia byadding missing information. |