New Guinean long-nosed bandicoots[1] | |
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New Guinean long-nosed bandicoots | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
Order: | Peramelemorphia |
Family: | Peramelidae |
Subfamily: | Peroryctinae Groves & Flannery, 1990 |
Genus: | Peroryctes Thomas, 1906 |
Type species | |
Perameles raffrayana Milne-Edwards, 1878
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Species | |
The New Guinean long-nosed bandicoots (genus Peroryctes) are members of the order Peramelemorphia. They are small to medium-sized marsupial omnivores native to New Guinea.
Two fossil taxa from Australia, Peroryctes tedfordi and then-unnamed Silvicultor hamiltonensis, were originally assigned to this genus,[2] but they were subsequently transferred to the separate genus Silvicultor.[3]