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Southern Pig-footed Bandicoot
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IUCN EX · Extinct

Southern Pig-footed Bandicoot

Chaeropus ecaudatus

The pig-footed bandicoot (Chaeropus ecaudatus) was a small marsupial of the arid and semi-arid plains of Australia. The distribution range of the species was later reduced to an inland desert region, where it was last recorded in the 1950s; it is now presumed to be extinct.

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