The short-nosed bandicoots (genus Isoodon) are members of the order Peramelemorphia.

These marsupials can be found across Australia, although their distribution can be patchy.

[citation needed] Genetic evidence suggests that short-nosed bandicoots diverged from the related long-nosed species around eight million years ago, during the Miocene epoch, and underwent a rapid diversification around three million years ago, during the late Pliocene.

[2] While the IUCN lists only three species in this genus,[3] as many as five species in this genus with the two subspecies of I. obesulus raised to full species.

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