What is "pig-footed bandicoot"

n. A small marsupial of the arid and semi-arid plains of Australia, (taxlink Chaeropus ecaudatus species noshow=1), now presumed to be extinct.

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.