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