Short-nosed bandicoot

Short-nosed bandicoots [1]
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
Species & subspecies
Isoodon auratus Isoodon macrourus Isoodon obesulus I. o. fusciventer I. o. peninsulae

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

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]

• Golden bandicoot, Isoodon auratus
• Northern brown bandicoot, Isoodon macrourus
• Southern brown bandicoot, Isoodon obesulus
  • Quenda or Western brown bandicoot, Isoodon obesulus fusciventer ^[5]
  • Cape York brown bandicoot, Isoodon obesulus peninsulae

References

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. Westerman, M.; Krajewski, C. (2000). "Molecular relationships of the Australian bandicoot genera Isoodon and Perameles (Marsupialia: Peramelina)". Australian Mammalogy. 22 (1): 1–8. doi: 10.1071/AM00001 .
3. "Isoodon". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species .
4. Schoch, CL; et al. (2020). "Isoodon". NCBI Taxonomy: A Comprehensive Update on Curation, Resources and Tools. 2020. Oxford. doi:10.1093/database/baaa062. PMC   7408187 . PMID   32761142.
5. Travouillon, Kenny J.; Phillips, Matthew J. (2018-02-07). "Total evidence analysis of the phylogenetic relationships of bandicoots and bilbies (Marsupialia: Peramelemorphia): reassessment of two species and description of a new species" . Zootaxa. 4378 (2): 224–256. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4378.2.3. ISSN   1175-5334. PMID   29690027.