Like another endangered burrowing marsupial, the northern hairy-nosed wombat, female greater bilbies have a backward-opening pouch, which prevents soil entering the pouch when they are digging.

Is bilby a marsupial?

The Bilby (Macrotis lagotis) is a nocturnal marsupial and has long, silky blue-grey fur, ears like a rabbit and a beautiful, bushy black tail with a white tip.

Which group of marsupials includes the bilby?

Bilby, (Macrotis lagotis), also called greater bilby, dalgyte, or greater rabbit-eared bandicoot, small, burrowing, nocturnal, long-eared marsupial belonging to the family Thylacomyidae (order Peramelemorphia) and native to Australia.