#peramelemorphia

Southern Brown Bandicoot (Isoodon obesulus), Eat a tasty nectar from some Banksia, family Paramelidae, order Peramelemorphia, Cranbourne, VIC, Australia

Queensland Barred Bandicoot Perameles pallescens

A bandicoot from the east coast of Queensland, Australia. It inhabits rainforest, wet sclerophyll forests, woodlands, swamps and farmlands.

metatheria -> peramelemorphia (bandicoots (shown above), bilbies)

This Easter, the Easter Bunny is bowing out for the Easter Bilby! Better known as the greater bilby, this marsupial is found in Australia's central desert. However, unlike other marsupials, the greater bilby's pouch is upside down-- it opens at the bottom instead of the top! Scientists believe that this is to prevent dirt from entering the pouch as females dig for food.

Quenda or Southwestern Brown Bandicoot (Isoodon fusciventer), family Peramelidae, order Peramelemorphia, Western Australia

Eastern Barred Bandicoot (Perameles gunnii), mother and child, family Peramelidae, order Peramelemorphia, found in SE Australia

Vulneralble.

Nocturnal.

This marsupial has a pregnancy that only lasts 12 days.

A small nocturnal marsupial that once roamed the Australian mainland has been brought back from the brink of extinction after a decades-long conservation effort, authorities said Wednesday.

The Eastern Barred Bandicoot populated the grassy plains of Victoria state's southwest until it was all but obliterated by non-native foxes, feral cats and habitat destruction.

By 1989, there were just 150 animals left in the region, mostly scrounging an existence in rusted-out cars at a rubbish dump.

Over the past three decades, multi-million dollar captive breeding and rewilding programmes have revived the mainland Australian population to an estimated 1,500 -- bumping it off the state's "extinct in the wild" list.