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.
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Is it venomous or poisonous?
We have no record of Northern Brown Bandicoot being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
Easily confused with
- Perameles nasuta
- Isoodon obesulus
- Perameles pallescens
- Isoodon fusciventer
- Potorous tridactylus
- Aepyprymnus rufescens
Classification
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Mammalia
- Order
- Peramelemorphia
- Family
- Peramelidae
- Genus
- Isoodon
- Species
- Isoodon macrourus
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