Perameles
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| Long-nosed bandicoots[1][2] | |
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| Perameles bougainville | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
| Order: | Peramelemorphia |
| Family: | Peramelidae |
| Genus: | Perameles É. Geoffroy, 1804 |
| Type species | |
| Perameles nasuta É. Geoffroy, 1804 | |
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The Long-nosed bandicoots (genus Perameles) are members of the Peramelemorphia order.
Extant species in this genus:
- Western Barred Bandicoot (P. bougainville)
- Eastern Barred Bandicoot (P. gunnii)
- Long-nosed Bandicoot (P. nasuta)
Extinct species in this genus:
- †P. allinghamensis[3]
- †P. bowensis[4]
- †P. sobbei[5][6]
References
- ↑ Groves, C. P. (2005). Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M, eds. Mammal Species of the World (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 40. OCLC 62265494. ISBN 0-801-88221-4.
- ↑ "Mikko's Phylogeny Archive - Peramelia". Retrieved 2008-03-12.
- ↑ Archer, M. & Wade, M. 1976. Results of the Ray E. Lemley expeditions, part 1: The Allingham Formation and a new Pliocene vertebrate fauna from northern Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 17, 54–58.
- ↑ Muirhead, J., Dawson, L. & Archer, M. 1997. Perameles bowensis, a new species of Perameles (Peramelomorphia, Marsupialia) from Pliocene faunas of Bow and Wellington caves, New South Wales. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 17, 163–174.
- ↑ Price, G. J. 2002. Perameles sobbei, sp. nov. (Marsupialia, Peramelidae), a Pleistocene bandicoot from the Darling Downs, south-eastern Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 48, 193-197.
- ↑ Price, G. J. 2005. Fossil bandicoots (Marsupialia, Peramelidae) and environmental change during the Pleistocene on the Darling Downs, southeastern Queensland, Australia. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 4, 347-356.
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