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Short-nosed bandicoot
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Short-nosed bandicoots[1]
Southern brown bandicoot Isoodon obesulus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Infraclass: Marsupialia
Order: Peramelemorphia
Family: Peramelidae
Subfamily: Peramelinae
Genus: Isoodon
(Desmarest, 1817)
Type species
Didelphis obesula
Shaw, 1797
Species & subspecies

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]

Species and subspecies

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While the IUCN lists only three species in this genus,[3] as many as five species in this genus with the two subspecies of I. obesulus raised to full species.[4]

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