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title: "Southern Brown Bandicoot"
description: "Isoodon obesulus — Mamíferos. The southern brown bandicoot (Isoodon obesulus) is a short-nosed bandicoot, a type of marsupial, found mostly in southern Australia."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pt/animal/southern-brown-bandicoot
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Southern Brown Bandicoot

> Isoodon obesulus — Mamíferos. The southern brown bandicoot (Isoodon obesulus) is a short-nosed bandicoot, a type of marsupial, found mostly in southern Australia.

- Scientific name: *Isoodon obesulus*
- Category: `mammals` (Mamíferos)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 2831
- Wikidata: [Q194151](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q194151)
- iNaturalist taxon: [43294](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/43294)

## Names

- en: Southern Brown Bandicoot
- de: Kleiner Kurznasenbeutler
- es: Bandicut marrón meridional
- fr: Bandicoot brun du Sud
- nl: Gewone kortneusbuideldas
- pl: Krótkonos brązowy

## Countries with the most observations

AU (2407)

## Summary

The southern brown bandicoot (Isoodon obesulus) is a short-nosed bandicoot, a type of marsupial, found mostly in southern Australia. A subspecies in Western Australia is also known as the quenda in South Western Australia (from the Noongar word kwinda). This subspecies was elevated to species in 2018.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_brown_bandicoot

## Photo

![Southern Brown Bandicoot](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/southern-brown-bandicoot/medium.jpg)

Photo: Vijay Barve · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/191148304

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/southern-brown-bandicoot?lang=pt` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).