Bandicota
Topic: Biology
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Short description: Genus of rodents
| Bandicota Temporal range: Holocene
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| Lesser bandicoot rat (Bandicota bengalensis) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Muridae |
| Tribe: | Rattini |
| Genus: | Bandicota Gray, 1873 |
| Type species | |
| Mus giganteus[1] | |
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Bandicota bengalensis | |
Bandicota is a genus of rodents from Asia known as the bandicoot rats. Their common name and genus name are derived from the Telugu language word pandikokku (పందికొక్కు). DNA studies have found the group to be a monophyletic clade sister to the radiation of Molucca and Australian Rattus species as part of the paraphyletic Rattus sensu lato.[2]
Species
- Greater bandicoot rat (B. indica) Bechstein, 1800
- Lesser bandicoot rat (B. bengalensis) Gray and Hardwicke, 1833
- Savile's bandicoot rat (B. savilei) Thomas, 1916
References
- ↑ Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M., eds (2005). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/biology/resources/msw3/browse.asp?id=13001245.
- ↑ THOMSON, VICKI; WIEWEL, ANDREW; CHINEN, ALDO; MARYANTO, IBNU; SINAGA, M. H.; HOW, RIC; APLIN, KEN; SUZUKI, HITOSHI (2018-08-15). "A perspective for resolving the systematics of Rattus, the vertebrates with the most influence on human welfare". Zootaxa 4459 (3): 431–452. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4459.3.2. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 30314119.
Wikidata ☰ Q3748384 entry
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