Western barred bandicoot[1] | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
Order: | Peramelemorphia |
Family: | Peramelidae |
Genus: | Perameles |
Species: | P. bougainville
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Binomial name | |
Perameles bougainville | |
Western barred bandicoot range (red—native; pink—reintroduced) |
The Western barred bandicoot (Perameles bougainville), also known as the Shark Bay bandicoot or the Marl, is a small species of bandicoot; now extinct across most of its former range, the western barred bandicoot only survives on offshore islands and in fenced sanctuaries on the mainland.