| Short-nosed bandicoots [1] | |
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| Southern brown bandicoot Isoodon obesulus | |
Scientific classification
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
| Order: | Peramelemorphia |
| Family: | Peramelidae |
| Subfamily: | Peramelinae |
| Genus: |
Isoodon ( Desmarest, 1817) |
| Type species | |
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Didelphis obesula (
Shaw, 1797)
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| Species & subspecies | |
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.[ citation needed] 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. [2]
Species and subspecies
While the IUCN lists only three species in this genus, [3] as many as five species in this genus with the two subspecies of I. obesulus raised to full species. [4]
- Golden bandicoot, Isoodon auratus
- Northern brown bandicoot, Isoodon macrourus
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Southern brown bandicoot, Isoodon obesulus
- Quenda or Western brown bandicoot, Isoodon obesulus fusciventer [5]
- Cape York brown bandicoot, Isoodon obesulus peninsulae
References
- ^ Groves, C.P. (2005). "Order Peramelemorphia". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 39. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
- ^ Westerman, M.; Krajewski, C. (2000). "Molecular relationships of the Australian bandicoot genera Isoodon and Perameles (Marsupialia: Peramelina)". Australian Mammalogy. 22 (1): 1–8. doi: 10.1071/AM00001.
- ^ "Isoodon". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
- ^ Schoch, CL; et al. (2020). "Isoodon". NCBI Taxonomy: A Comprehensive Update on Curation, Resources and Tools. 2020. Oxford. doi: 10.1093/database/baaa062. PMC 7408187. PMID 32761142.
- ^ Travouillon, Kenny J.; Phillips, Matthew J. (2018-02-07). "Total evidence analysis of the phylogenetic relationships of bandicoots and bilbies (Marsupialia: Peramelemorphia): reassessment of two species and description of a new species". Zootaxa. 4378 (2): 224–256. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4378.2.3. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 29690027.
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