A stocky, low-slung marsupial with small eyes, a bare nose and coarse grey-brown fur, it digs extensive burrows through heath, forest and grassland across southern and eastern Australia, including Tasmania. Notably produces cube-shaped droppings.
Taxonomy
- Order / family / genus
- Diprotodontia · Vombatidae · Vombatus
Conservation
Least concern
· LCWidespread and abundant taxa.