Common Spiny Bandicoot
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The Common Spiny Bandicoot (Echymipera kalubu) is a bandicoot. It is long-snouted even by bandicoot standards. The upper parts are a coarse reddish brown, flecked with spiny buff and black hairs. The tail is short and almost hairless. Length varies between 300 and 400 mm, with the tail accounting for an additional 80 to 100 mm; weight is from 600 to 2000 g.
The Common Spiny Bandicoot is native to New Guinea and the extreme northern tip of Australia, where it is locally common.
[edit] References
- Groves, Colin (16 November 2005). Wilson, D. E., and Reeder, D. M. (eds): Mammal Species of the World, 3rd edition, Johns Hopkins University Press, 41. ISBN 0-801-88221-4.
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