Southern brown bandicoot
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The southern brown bandicoot (Isoodon obesulus) is a short-nosed bandicoot, a type of marsupial, found mostly in southern Australia. A subspecies in Western Australia was also known as the quenda in South Western Australia (from the Noongar word 'kwinda').[6] This subspecies was elevated to species in 2018.[7]
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Southern brown bandicoot[1] | |
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Foraging adult | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
Order: | Peramelemorphia |
Family: | Peramelidae |
Genus: | Isoodon |
Species: | I. obesulus |
Binomial name | |
Isoodon obesulus (Shaw, 1797) | |
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Southern brown bandicoot range | |
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