Quenda

This article is about the small marsupial species. For the Portuguese football player, see Geovany Quenda.

Quenda
Quenda digging for arthropods. Beeliar Regional Park, Bibra Lake.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Infraclass: Marsupialia
Order: Peramelemorphia
Family: Peramelidae
Genus: Isoodon
Species:
I. obesulus
Subspecies:
I. o. fusciventer
Trinomial name
Isoodon obesulus fusciventer
(J. E. Gray, 1841)

The quenda (Isoodon obesulus fusciventer), also known as the southern brown bandicoot, is a small marsupial species[2] endemic to South Western Australia.

Though it is currently treated as a subspecies of the southern brown bandicoot (Isoodon obesulus), such as by the IUCN where it is given the status of least concern,[1] a 2018 paper proposed to raise it to species rank due to molecular and morphological analysis[3] which revealed it was more closely related to the golden bandicoot (Isoodon auratus).[4]

It is currently recognised as a separate species by ASM,[5] AFD,[6] ALA.[7]

Quenda are one of the few native marsupials that can still be seen in Perth's urban bushland reserves.[8] They are vulnerable to predation by feral foxes and cats and Quenda populations can recover where predators are controlled.[8]

  1. ^ a b Burbidge, A.A.; Woinarski, J. (2017) [errata version of 2016 assessment]. "Isoodon obesulus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T40553A115173603. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T40553A21966368.en. Retrieved 20 February 2023.
  2. ^ Australia, Atlas of Living. "Species: Isoodon fusciventer (Quenda)". bie.ala.org.au. Retrieved 2023-02-19.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ Thavornkanlapachai, Rujiporn; Levy, Esther; Li, You; Cooper, Steven J. B.; Byrne, Margaret; Ottewell, Kym (2020-12-22). "Disentangling the Genetic Relationships of Three Closely Related Bandicoot Species across Southern and Western Australia". Diversity. 13 (1): 2. doi:10.3390/d13010002. ISSN 1424-2818.
  5. ^ "ASM I.fusciventer".
  6. ^ "AFD I.fusciventer".
  7. ^ "ALA Quenda".
  8. ^ a b "Bandicoots". City of Cockburn. Retrieved 2023-02-22.