Hypsiprymnodon
Genus of marsupials
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Hypsiprymnodon is a genus of macropods. The sole extant species is Hypsiprymnodon moschatus, the musky rat-kangaroo. The genus includes four known fossil species.
| Hypsiprymnodon Temporal range: | |
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| Hypsiprymnodon moschatus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
| Order: | Diprotodontia |
| Family: | Hypsiprymnodontidae |
| Genus: | Hypsiprymnodon Ramsay, 1876 |
| Type species | |
| Hypsiprymnodon moschatus Ramsay, 1876 | |
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The generic name combines the Ancient Greek ὕψος (hyps-, 'high'), πρυμνός (prumnós, 'hindmost'), and ὀδών (odṓn, 'tooth').[1] This name was derived from the genus Hypsiprymnus, a synonym for Potorous, and distinguishes this by combining the Ancient Greek odoús, meaning 'tooth'.[2]
Classification
- Family Hypsiprymnodontidae[3]
- Subfamily Hypsiprymnodontinae
- Genus Hypsiprymnodon
- Hypsiprymnodon moschatus, musky rat-kangaroo
- †Hypsiprymnodon bartholomaii
- †Hypsiprymnodon philcreaseri
- †Hypsiprymnodon dennisi
- †Hypsiprymnodon karenblackae
- Subfamily †Propleopinae
- Genus Hypsiprymnodon
- Subfamily Hypsiprymnodontinae