Bandicota

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Bandicota
Temporal range: Recent
Bandicota bengalensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Muridae
Subfamily: Murinae
Genus: Bandicota
Gray, 1873
Species

Bandicota bengalensis
Bandicota indica
Bandicota savilei

Bandicota is a genus of rodent from Asia. They are known as the bandicoot rats.

Species

Genus Bandicota - bandicoot rats

  • Lesser Bandicoot Rat, Bandicota bengalensis Gray and Hardwicke, 1833
  • Greater Bandicoot Rat, Bandicota indica Bechstein, 1800
  • Savile's Bandicoot Rat, Bandicota savilei Thomas, 1916

References

  • Musser, G. G. and M. D. Carleton. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. Pp. 894-1531 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.

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