Menzies' Spiny Bandicoot

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Menzies' Spiny Bandicoot[1]
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Peramelemorphia
Family: Peramelidae
Genus: Echymipera
Species: E. echinista
Binomial name
Echymipera echinista
Menzies, 1990

The Fly River Bandicoot or Menzies' Spiny Bandicoot (Echymipera echinista) is a species of marsupial in the Peramelidae family. It is endemic to Papua New Guinea.[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, 41. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. 
  2. ^ a b Australasian Marsupial & Monotreme Specialist Group (1996). Echymipera echinista. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 2007-07-29.