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Short-nosed bandicoot
Genus of marsupials / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The short-nosed bandicoots (genus Isoodon) are members of the order Peramelemorphia. These marsupials can be found across Australia, although their distribution can be patchy.[citation needed] Genetic evidence suggests that short-nosed bandicoots diverged from the related long-nosed species around eight million years ago, during the Miocene epoch, and underwent a rapid diversification around three million years ago, during the late Pliocene.[2]
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Short-nosed bandicoots[1] | |
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Southern brown bandicoot Isoodon obesulus | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
Order: | Peramelemorphia |
Family: | Peramelidae |
Subfamily: | Peramelinae |
Genus: | Isoodon (Desmarest, 1817) |
Type species | |
Didelphis obesula (Shaw, 1797) | |
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