| Perameles Temporal range: Pleistocene - Recent
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| Perameles myosuros | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
| Order: | Peramelemorphia |
| Family: | Peramelidae |
| Subfamily: | Peramelinae |
| Genus: | Perameles É. Geoffroy, 1804 |
| Type species | |
| Perameles nasuta É. Geoffroy, 1804
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| Species | |
Perameles is a genus of marsupials of the order Peramelemorphia. They are referred to as long-nosed bandicoots or barred bandicoots.[1][2]
Perameles, or ‘pouched badger’, is a hybrid word, from the Greek pera (πήρα, ‘pouch, bag’) and the Latin mēles (‘marten, badger’).[3]
More than half the known recent species of Perameles have been driven to extinction, although these extinct species were long considered conspecific with P. bougainville, a 2018 study determined them to be distinct species.[4]
The extant species are:
- Western barred bandicoot (P. bougainville)
- Eastern barred bandicoot (P. gunnii)
- Long-nosed bandicoot (P. nasuta)
- Queensland barred bandicoot (P. pallescens)
The recently extinct species are:
- †Desert bandicoot (P. eremiana)
- †New South Wales barred bandicoot (P. fasciata)
- †Southwestern barred bandicoot (P. myosuros)
- †Southern barred bandicoot (P. notina)
- †Nullarbor barred bandicoot (P. papillon)[5]
Fossil species are,
- ^ 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 (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. (Subscription or participating institution membership required.)
- ^ Travouillon & Phillips (2018). "Total evidence analysis of the phylogenetic relationships of bandicoots and bilbies (Marsupialia: Peramelemorphia): Reassessment of two species and description of a new species" Zootaxa. February 2018.
- ^ Travouillon & Phillips (2018). "Total evidence analysis of the phylogenetic relationships of bandicoots and bilbies (Marsupialia: Peramelemorphia): Reassessment of two species and description of a new species" Zootaxa. February 2018.
- ^ 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" (PDF). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 2 (4): 347–356. doi:10.1017/S1477201904001476. S2CID 130657285.
- ^ Travouillon, Kenny; Louys, Julien; Price, Gilbert; Archer, Michael; Hand, Suzanne; Muirhead, Jeanette (2017). "A review of the Pliocene bandicoots of Australia, and descriptions of new genus and species". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 37 (5): e1360894. Bibcode:2017JVPal..37E0894T. doi:10.1080/02724634.2017.1360894. S2CID 90107606.