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Desert Bandicoot
Perameles eremiana
The desert bandicoot (Perameles eremiana) is an extinct bandicoot of the arid country in the centre of Australia. The last known specimen was collected in 1943 on the Canning Stock Route in Western Australia. It is presumed to be extinct.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 43307.