Perameles
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 | |
Species | |
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The long-nosed bandicoots (genus Perameles) are members of the order Peramelemorphia.
Perameles, or ‘pouched badger’, is a hybrid word, from the Greek pera (πήρα, ‘pouch, bag’) and the Latin mēles (‘marten, badger’).[3]
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[4]
- †P. bowensis[5]
- †P. sobbei[6][7]
References
- ↑ Groves, C.P. (2005). Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M., eds. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 40. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. OCLC 62265494.
- ↑ "Mikko's Phylogeny Archive – Peramelia". Retrieved 2008-03-12.
- ↑ "Perameles". Oxford English Dictionary (3rd ed.). Oxford University Press. September 2005. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ↑ 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. 2 (4): 347. doi:10.1017/S1477201904001476.
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