Raffray's bandicoot[1] | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
Order: | Peramelemorphia |
Family: | Peramelidae |
Genus: | Peroryctes |
Species: | P. raffrayana
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Binomial name | |
Peroryctes raffrayana (A. Milne-Edwards, 1878)
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Raffray's bandicoot range |
Raffray's bandicoot (Peroryctes raffrayana) is a species of marsupial in the family Peroryctidae. It is found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests.[2]
It is known as pakam in the Kalam language of Papua New Guinea.[3]