New Guinean spiny bandicoot

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New Guinean spiny bandicoots[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Peramelemorphia
Family: Peramelidae
Subfamily: Echymiperinae
Genus: Echymipera
Lesson, 1842
Type species
Perameles kalubu
Fischer, 1829
Species

The New Guinean spiny bandicoots (genus Echymipera) are members of the Peramelemorphia order.

[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, 41-42. ISBN 0-801-88221-4.