Bandicota

Short description: Genus of rodents

Bandicota

Temporal range: Holocene

Lesser bandicoot rat (Bandicota bengalensis)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Chordata
Class:  | Mammalia
Order:  | Rodentia
Family:  | Muridae
Tribe:  | Rattini
Genus:  | Bandicota
Gray, 1873
Type species
Mus giganteus[1]

Species

Bandicota bengalensis
Bandicota indica
Bandicota savilei

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

1. ↑ 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.
2. ↑ 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.

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