Biology:Short-nosed bandicoot

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Short description: Genus of marsupials

Short-nosed bandicoots[1]
Southern brown bandicoot Isoodon obesulus
Scientific classification e
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 the genus[3], Australian sources consider there to be five species of the genus with two subspecies of I. obesulus being elevated to full species status.[4][5]

References

  1. Groves, C.P. (2005). "Order Peramelemorphia". in Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. 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. http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/biology/resources/msw3/browse.asp?id=10900011. 
  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". https://www.iucnredlist.org/search?query=125043&searchType=species. 
  4. Schoch, CL (2020). "Isoodon". NCBI Taxonomy: A Comprehensive Update on Curation, Resources and Tools (Oxford) 2020. doi:10.1093/database/baaa062. PMID 32761142. PMC 7408187. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?mode=Undef&id=37888&lvl=3&keep=1&srchmode=1&unlock. 
  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. https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4378.2.3. 
  6. "Species Isoodon fusciventer (J.E. Gray, 1841)". https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/Isoodon_fusciventer. 
  7. "Species Isoodon peninsulae Thomas, 1922". https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/Isoodon_peninsulae. 


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