#0497 · 🦊 mammals
Quenda
🇳🇱 Gewone Kortneusbuideldas ·Isoodon fusciventer
🦊 Mammals 📍 outside Europe
📍 Western Australia, AU
📍 Western Australia, AU
📍 Western Australia, AU
📍 Albany, AU-WA, AU
📍 Western Australia, AU
📍 Western Australia, AU
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Cairina · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Caitlin · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Colin Prickett · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Kerry + Darren · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. Western Australia, AU:© nbanning · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. Western Australia, AU:© Wild Antonio (Cosmos) · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Western Australia, AU:© Thomas Mesaglio · CC BY 4.0
- 8. Albany, AU-WA, AU:© J Magoo · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 9. Western Australia, AU:© Cairina · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Western Australia, AU:© dschok · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
The quenda ( Isoodon obesulus fusciventer ), also known as the southern brown bandicoot , is a small marsupial species endemic to South Western Australia.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 1,873 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- Quenda
- Nederlands
- Gewone Kortneusbuideldas
- scientific name
- Isoodon fusciventer
- class
- Mammalia
- order
- Peramelemorphia
- family
- Peramelidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 1,873
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
relatives· Peramelidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 1407675, Wikidata Q50329215, GBIF 9815637, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.