lesser bilby
Sign in to saveAlso known as Macrotis leucura, yallara, lesser rabbit-eared bandicoot
species of extinct mammal
In the Vinony graph
lesser bilby appears in Vinony's Extinct Species collection — one of 964 entries.
Within Vinony's link graph, lesser bilby is referenced by 13 other articles, and connects out to extinction, greater bilby and Triodia.
It is catalogued under topics including Extinct animals of Australia, Extinct mammals of Australia and Extinct mammals of South Australia.
Its subject is documented across 31 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Parent taxon
- Macrotis
- Image
- Lesserbilby.jpg
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- Commons category
- Macrotis leucura
- taxon common name
- mali bilbi
- taxon rank
- species
- IUCN conservation status
- extinct species
- taxon name
- Macrotis leucura
- Commons gallery
- Macrotis leucura
- endemic to
- Australia
- extinction date
- 1960-00-00
- taxon author citation
- (Thomas, 1887)
- short name
- M. leucura
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Encyclopedic overview
The lesser bilby (Macrotis leucura), also known as the yallara, the lesser rabbit-eared bandicoot or the white-tailed rabbit-eared bandicoot, is an extinct 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. 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.
Taxonomy
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “lesser bilby” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.