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Lesser bilby
Extinct species of marsupial / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The lesser bilby (Macrotis leucura), also known as the yallara, the lesser rabbit-eared bandicoot or the white-tailed rabbit-eared bandicoot, was a rabbit-like marsupial. The species was first described by Oldfield Thomas as Peregale leucura in 1887 from a single specimen from a collection of mammals of the British Museum.[3] Reaching the size of a young rabbit, this species lived in the deserts of Central Australia. Since the 1950s–1960s, it has been believed to be extinct.
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Lesser bilby | |
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A stuffed lesser bilby specimen at Tring Museum | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
Order: | Peramelemorphia |
Family: | Thylacomyidae |
Genus: | Macrotis |
Species: | †M. leucura |
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†Macrotis leucura | |
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