#0413 · 🦊 mammals
Southern Brown Bandicoot
🇳🇱 Gewone Kortneusbuideldas ·Isoodon obesulus
📍 Cranbourne VIC 3977, Australia
📍 Nelson VIC 3292, Australia
📍 Aireys Inlet - Fairhaven VIC 3231, Australia
📍 Melbourne VIC, Australia
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © awmccutcheon · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Owen Lishmund · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Alan Melville · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 4. © Michael Keogh · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 5. © marcelfinlay · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Ricardo Simao · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Cranbourne VIC 3977, Australia:© Ricardo Simao · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Nelson VIC 3292, Australia:© awmccutcheon · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Aireys Inlet - Fairhaven VIC 3231, Australia:© lauren leviston · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Melbourne VIC, Australia:© Michael Keogh · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
what is it?
The southern brown bandicoot ( Isoodon obesulus ) is a short-nosed bandicoot, a type of marsupial, found mostly in southern Australia. It is also known as the quenda in South Western Australia (from the Noongar word kwernt ).
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.
- 2,904 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by George Shaw in 1797 (229 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Southern Brown Bandicoot
- Nederlands
- Gewone Kortneusbuideldas
- scientific name
- Isoodon obesulus
- class
- Mammalia
- order
- Peramelemorphia
- family
- Peramelidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 2,904
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- 0.4 g
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1797 by George Shaw
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Peramelidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 43294, Wikidata Q194151, GBIF 2435311, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.