Lesser bilby
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| phylum | Chordata | 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.
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| class | Mammalia | |
| infraclass | Metatheria | |
| order | Peramelemorphia | |
| family | Thylacomyidae | |
| genus | Macrotis | |
| species | M. leucura |