#0421 · 🦊 mammals
Long-nosed Bandicoot
🇳🇱 Spitsneusbuideldas ·Perameles nasuta
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Brett Vercoe · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Brett Vercoe · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Vik Dunis · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Brad Woodworth · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Isaac Clarey · CC BY-NC 4.0
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- 9. © cirolana · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. © Jonathan Gu · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
The long-nosed bandicoot ( Perameles nasuta ) is a species of bandicoot found in eastern Australia, from north Queensland along the east coast to Victoria. Around 40 centimetres (16 in) long, it is sandy- or grey-brown with a long snouty nose. Omnivorous, it forages for invertebrates, fungi and plants at night.
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.
- 2,742 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire in 1804 (222 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Long-nosed Bandicoot
- Nederlands
- Spitsneusbuideldas
- scientific name
- Perameles nasuta
- class
- Mammalia
- order
- Peramelemorphia
- family
- Peramelidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 2,742
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1804 by Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Peramelidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 43306, Wikidata Q194268, GBIF 5219457, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.