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Southern Brown Bandicoot
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Southern Brown Bandicoot

Isoodon obesulus

The southern brown bandicoot (Isoodon obesulus) is a short-nosed bandicoot, a type of marsupial, found mostly in southern Australia. It is also known as the quenda in South Western Australia (from the Noongar word kwernt).

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