Long-nosed Potoroo
Potorous tridactylus
- Class
- Mammal
- Rarity
- Rare
- Observations
- 449
- Most observed in
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- Conservation
- Near Threatened
Description
The long-nosed potoroo (Potorous tridactylus) is a small, hopping mammal native to forests and shrubland of southeastern Australia and Tasmania. A member of the potoroo and bettong family (Potoroidae), it lives alone and digs at night for fungi, roots, or small insects. It is also a marsupial (like kangaroos) and carries its young in a pouch.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Long-nosed potoroo”.