Species profile—Isoodon peninsulae (Cape York brown bandicoot)
Classification
Animalia (animals) → Mammalia (mammals) → Peramelidae (Bandicoots) → Isoodon peninsulae (Cape York brown bandicoot)
Sighting data
Species details
- Kingdom
- Animalia (animals)
- Class
- Mammalia (mammals)
- Family
- Peramelidae (Bandicoots)
- Scientific name
- Isoodon peninsulae Thomas, 1922
- Common name
- Cape York brown bandicoot
- Type reference
- Thomas, O. (1922). The bandicoots of Nuyts Archipelago, S. Australia, and of Cape York, N. Queensland. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 9: 677-679.
- WildNet taxon ID
- 785
- Synonym(s)
- Isoodon obesulus
Isoodon obesulus peninsulae - Alternate name(s)
- southern brown bandicoot
brown bandicoot
southern short-nosed bandicoot
short-nosed bandicoot - Nature Conservation Act 1992 (NCA) status
- Least concern
- Conservation significant
- No
- Endemicity
- Native
- Pest status
- Nil
Other resources
Data source
This profile data is sourced from the QLD Wildlife Data API using the Get species by ID function used under CC-By 4.0.
https://apps.des.qld.gov.au/species/?op=getspeciesbyid&taxonid=785.
This information is sourced from the WildNet database managed by the Queensland Department of Environment and Science.
