Kingdom Animalia Family Peramelidae Scientific name Isoodon Rank Genus | Infraclass Marsupialia Subfamily Peramelinae Phylum Chordata Order Peramelemorphia | |
Lower classifications Southern brown bandicoot, Northern brown bandicoot, Golden bandicoot |
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. 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.
Species
There are three species in this genus:
References
Short-nosed bandicoot Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA