Northern Pig-footed Bandicoot
Chaeropus yirratji
- Extinct
- Card rarity: Extinct
- Mammals
The northern pig-footed bandicoot was a small species of extinct herbivorous Australian marsupial in the genus Chaeropus, the pig-footed bandicoots. It has been believed to be extinct since the mid-20th century; the last confirmed observation was a specimen collected near Alice Springs in 1901, but reports from local Aborigines indicate that it may have survived in the Gibson and Great Sandy Deserts as late as the 1950s.
Classification
- Class
- Mammalia
- Order
- Peramelemorphia
- Family
- Chaeropodidae
- Genus
- Chaeropus