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#0460 · 🦊 mammals

Northern Brown Bandicoot

🇳🇱 Grote Kortneusbuideldas ·Isoodon macrourus

LCleast concern 🦊 Mammals 📍 outside Europe
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
  1. 1. © Brett Vercoe · CC BY-NC 4.0
  2. 2. © Reiner Richter · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
  3. 3. © Marie Tarrant · CC BY-NC 4.0
  4. 4. © Brett Vercoe · CC BY-NC 4.0
  5. 5. © Steve Dew · CC BY-NC 4.0
  6. 6. © Steve Dew · CC BY-NC 4.0
  7. 7. Tiwi Islands Region, Tiwi Islands NT 0822, Australia:© Craig Winston · CC BY-NC 4.0
  8. 8. Little Mulgrave Rd, Little Mulgrave, QLD, AU:© jmanins · CC BY-NC 4.0
  9. 9. Brisbane QLD, Australia:© paddyreed · CC BY-NC 4.0
  10. 10. Queensland, AU:© codyhochen · CC BY-NC 4.0
Northern Brown Bandicoot, photo 1 of 10
1/10 © Brett Vercoe · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The northern brown bandicoot ( Isoodon macrourus ), a marsupial species, is a bandicoot found only on the northern and eastern coasts of Australia and nearby islands, mainly Papua New Guinea. It is not, however, found far inland.

base stats

  • NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
  • worldwide 2,190iNaturalist observations
  • threat LCleast concern

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.
  • 2,190 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
  • Scientifically named by John Gould in 1842 (184 years ago).

fact sheet

English
Northern Brown Bandicoot
Nederlands
Grote Kortneusbuideldas
scientific name
Isoodon macrourus
class
Mammalia
order
Peramelemorphia
family
Peramelidae
IUCN Red List
LC · least concern
sightings in NL
0
sightings worldwide
2,190
GBIF records in NL
0
weight
—
length
—
lifespan
—
named
1842 by John Gould

IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.

relatives· Peramelidae

Sources: iNaturalist taxon 43301, Wikidata Q194272, GBIF 2435304, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.

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