Long-nosed bandicoot

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Long-nosed bandicoots
Perameles bougainville
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Peramelemorphia Family: Peramelidae Genus: Perameles É. Geoffroy, 1804
Type species
Perameles nasuta É. Geoffroy, 1804
Species
†P. allinghamensis P. bougainville †P. bowensis †P. eremiana P. gunnii P. nasuta

The Long-nosed bandicoots (genus Perameles) are members of the Peramelemorphia order.

[edit] References

• Groves, Colin (16 November 2005). in Wilson, D. E., and Reeder, D. M. (eds): Mammal Species of the World, 3rd edition, Johns Hopkins University Press, 40. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. 
• Schwartz, L.R. (2006). "A new species of bandicoot from the Oligocene of Northern Australia and implications for correlating Australian Tertiary mammal faunas". Palaeontology 49 (5): 991–998. DOI:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2006.00584.x. 

[edit] External link

• ARKive - images and movies of the Western Barred Bandicoot (Perameles bougainville)