Eastern bettong: Where It Lives, Map & Facts

Where the eastern bettong lives – recorded in 1 country, with quick facts from Wikidata and an introduction from Wikipedia.

Scientific name	Bettongia gaimardi
Group	Marsupials
Status	Near threatened (Wikidata, IUCN category label)
Found in	1 country
Continents	Oceania
Class	Mammal
Order	Diprotodontia
Family	Potoroidae

Where does the eastern bettong live?

Open-licence (CC0 / CC BY) wild records published on GBIF place the eastern bettong in 1 country or territory across Oceania. Wikidata lists it as endemic to Australia.

Australia

Countries with at least a handful of records (a minimum share of the species’ records, to leave out vagrants and escapes). Records with coordinates only; captive and fossil records excluded.

Is the eastern bettong endangered?

The eastern bettong’s conservation status recorded in Wikidata is “Near threatened” (an IUCN Red List category label). Source: Wikidata.

What kind of animal is the eastern bettong?

The eastern bettong (Bettongia gaimardi) is a mammal in the order Diprotodontia and the family Potoroidae, genus Bettongia. (Taxonomy from Wikidata.)

About the eastern bettong

The eastern bettong (Bettongia gaimardi), also known as the southern or Tasmanian bettong, is a small, hopping, rat-like mammal native to grassy forests of southeastern Australia and Tasmania. A member of the rat-kangaroo family (Potoroidae), it is active at night and feeds on fungi and plant roots. Like most marsupials, it carries its young in a pouch. The eastern bettong is under pressure by introduced predators and habitat loss. The subspecies on mainland Australia (B. g. gaimardi) is extinct, but populations of the Tasmanian subspecies (B. g. cuniculus) have been reintroduced there.

The animal is called balbo by the Ngunnawal, an Aboriginal people who used to keep them as pets.

Text in “About” is quoted from the Wikipedia article Eastern bettong (revision 1335346791), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: lead section excerpted verbatim, formatting removed. Quick facts, taxonomy and status: Wikidata Q209652 (CC0). Countries and pin: GBIF.org occurrence records (CC0 / CC BY 4.0).