Northern brown bandicoot[1] | |
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Queensland, Australia | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
Order: | Peramelemorphia |
Family: | Peramelidae |
Genus: | Isoodon |
Species: | I. macrourus
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Binomial name | |
Isoodon macrourus (Gould, 1842)
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Northern brown bandicoot range (blue — extant, black — extinct) |
The northern brown bandicoot (Isoodon macrourus), a marsupial species, is a bandicoot found only on the northern and eastern coasts of Australia and nearby islands, mainly Papua New Guinea. It is not, however, found far inland.[1]