New Guinean spiny bandicoot

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
  • Echymipera clara
  • Echymipera davidi
  • Echymipera kalubu
  • Echymipera rufescens
  • Echymipera echinista

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

References

  1. Groves, C. P. (2005). Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M, eds. Mammal Species of the World (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 41–42. OCLC 62265494. ISBN 0-801-88221-4.