Southern brown bandicoot
| Southern brown bandicoot | |
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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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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 is also known as the quenda in South Western Australia (from the Noongar word 'kwinda'). This subspecies was elevated to species in 2018.