Western Brown Bandicoot

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The quenda (Isoodon fusciventer), also known as the southwestern brown bandicoot or western brown bandicoot, is a small marsupial species endemic to Southwest Australia. Though it was originally 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, a 2018 paper proposed to raise it to species rank due to molecular and morphological analysis which revealed it was more closely related to the golden bandicoot (Isoodon auratus). It is currently recognised as a separate species by the ASM Mammal Diversity…

Isoodon un género de marsupiales peramelemorfos de la familia Peramelidae que incluye cuatro especies conocidas vulgarmente como bandicuts hociquicortos. Especies Se han descrito las siguientes especies:​ Isoodon auratus Isoodon fusciventer Isoodon macrourus Isoodon obesulus Isoodon peninsulae Referencias Enlaces externos Wikimedia Commons alberga una categoría multimedia sobre Isoodon. Wikispecies tiene un artículo sobre Isoodon.