Short-nosed bandicoot

Short-nosed bandicoots[1]
Southern brown bandicoot Isoodon obesulus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Infraclass:	Marsupialia
Order:	Peramelemorphia
Family:	Peramelidae
Subfamily:	Peramelinae
Genus:	Isoodon (Desmarest, 1817)
Type species
Didelphis obesula (Shaw , 1797)
Species & subspecies
Isoodon auratus Isoodon macrourus Isoodon obesulus I. o. fusciventer I. o. peninsulae

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
• Southern brown bandicoot, Isoodon obesulus
  • Quenda or Western brown bandicoot, Isoodon obesulus fusciventer^[5]
  • Cape York brown bandicoot, Isoodon obesulus peninsulae

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