Southern brown bandicoot

Southern brown bandicoot[1] 
Foraging adult
Scientific classification Edit this 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)
Subspecies
Southern brown bandicoot range
Synonyms
  • Didelphis obesula[4]
  • Perameles obesula[5]

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 was also known as the quenda in South Western Australia (from the Noongar word 'kwinda').[6] This subspecies was elevated to species in 2018.[7]

  1. ^ Groves, C.P. (2005). "Order Peramelemorphia". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 39. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
  2. ^ Friend, T.; Morris, K.; van Weenen, J.; Winter, J.; Menkhorst, P. (2008). "Isoodon obesulus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2008: e.T40553A10333481. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2008.RLTS.T40553A10333481.en.
  3. ^ "Isoodon obesulus obesulus — Southern Brown Bandicoot (eastern), Southern Brown Bandicoot (south-eastern)". Species Profile and Threats Database. Australian Government, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment. Retrieved 2020-07-29.
  4. ^ "Subspecies Isoodon obesulus obesulus (Shaw, 1797)". Australian Faunal Directory. Australian Government. 16 November 2022. Retrieved 19 January 2023.
  5. ^ Driessen, M.M.; Rose, R.K. (December 2015). "Isoodon obesulus (Peramelemorphia: Peramelidae)". Mammalian Species. 47 (929): 112–123. doi:10.1093/mspecies/sev012.
  6. ^ "Quenda" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-09-20. Retrieved 2007-07-23.
  7. ^ Jackson, S. M.; Baker, A. M.; Eldridge, M. D. B.; Fisher, D. O.; Frankham, G. J.; Lavery, T. H.; MacDonald, A. J.; Menkhorst, P. W.; Phillips, M. J.; Potter, S.; Rowe, K. C.; Travouillon, K. J.; Umbrello, L. S. (2022-10-12). "The importance of appropriate taxonomy in Australian mammalogy". Australian Mammalogy. 45 (1): 13–23. doi:10.1071/AM22016. ISSN 1836-7402. S2CID 252886788.