New Guinean long-nosed bandicoot

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New Guinean long-nosed bandicoots[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Peramelemorphia Family: Peramelidae Subfamily: Peroryctinae Groves and Flannery, 1990 Genus: Peroryctes Thomas, 1906
Species
Peroryctes broadbenti Peroryctes raffrayana

The New Guinean long-nosed bandicoots (genus Peroryctes) are members of the Peramelemorphia order. They are small to medium sized marsupial omnivores native to New Guinea.

Fossil members of this genus have been found in Australia, including P. tedfordi and an unnamed species.^[2]

[edit] References

1. ^ 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. 
2. ^ Turnbull, W.D. et al. (2003). "Dasyurids, perameloids, phalangeroids and vomabatoids from the early Pliocene Hamilton fauna, Victoria, Australia". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 279: 513–540. DOI:<0513:C>2.0.CO;2 10.1206/0003-0090(2003)279<0513:C>2.0.CO;2.