A small, rat-like hopping marsupial of open eucalypt forest and grassy woodland. The mainland population was wiped out by introduced foxes and rabbits in the 1920s; only the Tasmanian form survives, foraging at night for truffles, fungi, roots and tubers.
Taxonomy
- Order / family / genus
- Diprotodontia · Potoroidae · Bettongia
Conservation
Near threatened
· NTClose to qualifying for a threatened category in the near future.