Order Diprotodontia
Author
Colin P. Groves
text
1993
Smithsonian Institution Press
Washington and London
Editor
Don E. Wilson
Editor
DeeAnn M. Reeder
Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition)
45
62
book chapter
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Petrogale Gray,
1837
.
Mag. Nat. Hist. [Charlesworth's], 1:583
.
TYPE SPECIES:
Kängurus penicillatus
Gray, 1827
.
SYNONYMS:
Heteropus, Peradorcas
.
COMMENTS: Revision of this genus is underway by Sharman, Eldridge et al.; a preliminary account of their arrangement was provided by
Poole
(1979)
and
Briscoe et al. (1982)
.
Kitchener and Sanson (1978)
considered this genus as probably congeneric with
Peradorcas
.