Pig-footed bandicoot
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| phylum | Chordata | The pig-footed bandicoot (Chaeropus ecaudatus) was a small marsupial of the arid and semi-arid plains of Australia. The distribution range of the species was later reduced to an inland desert region, where it was last recorded in the 1950s; it is now presumed to be extinct.
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| class | Mammalia | |
| infraclass | Metatheria | |
| order | Peramelemorphia | |
| family | Chaeropodidae | |
| genus | Chaeropus | |
| species | C. ecaudatus |