quenda

Theme week: Australasian Qs, animals from Australia-and-environs with a name beginning with Q. I've been planning this for a while, but still have to include two caveats: first, some of these are repeats, but I'm gleeful at the thought of running them together, and second, I couldn't find a 5th I was comfortable with inside of Australia proper so had to range a little further afield. This first one, though, is solidly Aussie:


quenda (KWEN-duh) - n., the southern brown bandicoot (Isoodon obesulus fusciventer) endemic to southwestern Australia.


A particularly cute kind of bandicoot, I might add:


Thanks, WikiMedia!

Name is from one of the Noongar/Nyungar languages of the greater Perth area.

---L.