Southern Brown Bandicoot
Isoodon obesulus
- Class
- Mammal
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 1,760
- Most observed in
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- Conservation
- Least Concern
Description
The southern brown bandicoot (Isoodon obesulus) is a short-nosed bandicoot, a type of marsupial, found mostly in southern Australia. A subspecies in Western Australia is also known as the quenda in South Western Australia (from the Noongar word kwinda). This subspecies was elevated to species in 2018.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Southern brown bandicoot”.