New Guinean spiny bandicoot

Genus of marsupials

New Guinean spiny bandicoots[1]

Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Chordata
Class:  | Mammalia
Infraclass:  | Marsupialia
Order:  | Peramelemorphia
Family:  | Peramelidae
Subfamily:  | Echymiperinae
Genus:  | Echymipera
Lesson, 1842
Type species
Perameles kalubu

Fischer, 1829

Species

* Echymipera clara
* Echymipera davidi
* Echymipera echinista
* Echymipera kalubu
* Echymipera rufescens

The New Guinean spiny bandicoots (genus Echymipera) are members of the order Peramelemorphia. They are found on New Guinea and nearby islands as well as on the Cape York Peninsula of Australia.

## Species[edit]

All Echymipera species are native to New Guinea. The common echymipera and long-nosed echymipera are also found on neighboring islands.

* Clara's echymipera (Echymipera clara)
* David's echymipera (Echymipera davidi)
* Menzies' echymipera (Echymipera echinista)
* Common echymipera (Echymipera kalubu)
* Long-nosed echymipera (Echymipera rufescens)

## References[edit]

1. ^ 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. pp. 41–42. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. OCLC 62265494.

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Extant Peramelemorphia species by family

* Kingdom Animalia
* Phylum Chordata
* Class Mammalia
* Infraclass Marsupialia

Thylacomyidae
(Bilbies)|

| Macrotis|

* Greater bilby (M. lagotis)

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Peramelidae
(Bandicoots)|

| Isoodon
(Short-nosed
bandicoots)|

* Golden bandicoot (I. auratus)
* Northern brown bandicoot (I. macrourus)
* Southern brown bandicoot (I. obesulus)

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Perameles
(Long-nosed
bandicoots)|

* Western barred bandicoot (P. bougainville)
* Eastern barred bandicoot (P. gunnii)
* Long-nosed bandicoot (P. nasuta)

Peroryctes
(New Guinean long-
nosed bandicoots)|

* Giant bandicoot (P. broadbenti)
* Raffray's bandicoot (P. raffrayana)

Echymipera
(New Guinean
spiny bandicoots)|

* Clara's echymipera (E. clara)
* David's echymipera (E. davidi)
* Menzies' echymipera (E. echinista)
* Common echymipera (E. kaluba)
* Long-nosed echymipera (E. rufescens)

Microperoryctes
(New Guinean
mouse bandicoots)|

* Arfak pygmy bandicoot (M. alpini)
* Striped bandicoot (M. longicauda)
* Mouse bandicoot (M. murina)
* Papuan bandicoot (M. papuensis)

Rhynchomeles|

* Seram bandicoot (R. prattorum)

Category

Taxon identifiers

Echymipera|

* Wikidata: Q668149
* Wikispecies: Echymipera
* ADW: Echymipera
* AFD: Echymipera
* BOLD: 79667
* CoL: 49QR
* EoL: 34615
* GBIF: 2435316
* iNaturalist: 43281
* IRMNG: 1013763
* ITIS: 552423
* MSW: 10900034
* NCBI: 42732
* Open Tree of Life: 659173
* Paleobiology Database: 40110

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