New Guinean long-nosed bandicoots[1] | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
Order: | Peramelemorphia |
Family: | Peramelidae |
Subfamily: | Peroryctinae Groves and Flannery, 1990 |
Genus: | Peroryctes Thomas, 1906 |
Type species | |
Perameles raffrayana Milne-Edwards, 1878 |
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Species | |
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]
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