New Guinean long-nosed bandicoot
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 | |
Species | |
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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]
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.
- ↑ Turnbull, W.D. et al. (2003). "Dasyurids, perameloids, phalangeroids and vomabatoids from the early Pliocene Hamilton fauna, Victoria, Australia". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 279: 513–540. doi:10.1206/0003-0090(2003)279<0513:C>2.0.CO;2. ISSN 0003-0090.
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