Short-nosed bandicoot
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The short-nosed bandicoots (genus Isoodon) are members of the order Peramelemorphia. These marsupials can be found across Australia, although their distribution can be patchy.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Genetic evidence suggests that short-nosed bandicoots diverged from the related long-nosed species around eight million years ago, during the Miocene epoch, and underwent a rapid diversification around three million years ago, during the late Pliocene.[1]
Species and subspecies
While the IUCN lists only three species in this genus,[2] as many as five species in this genus with the two subspecies of I. obesulus raised to full species.[3]
- Golden bandicoot, Isoodon auratus
- Northern brown bandicoot, Isoodon macrourus
- Southern brown bandicoot, Isoodon obesulus
- Quenda or Western brown bandicoot, Isoodon obesulus fusciventer[4]
- Cape York brown bandicoot, Isoodon obesulus peninsulae
References
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