Short-nosed bandicoot
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. 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.
| Short-nosed bandicoots | |
|---|---|
| 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 | |
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