New Guinean spiny bandicoot

New Guinean spiny bandicoots^[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Peramelemorphia
Family:	Peramelidae
Subfamily:	Echymiperinae
Genus:	Echymipera Lesson, 1842
Type species
Perameles kalubu Fischer, 1829
Species
Echymipera clara Echymipera davidi Echymipera kalubu Echymipera rufescens Echymipera echinista

The New Guinean spiny bandicoots (genus Echymipera) are members of the order Peramelemorphia.

References

↑ 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. OCLC 62265494. ISBN 0-801-88221-4.

Extant Peramelemorphia species by family

Macrotis	Greater bilby (M. lagotis)

Isoodon (Short-nosed bandicoots)	Golden bandicoot (I. auratus) Northern brown bandicoot (I. macrourus) Southern brown bandicoot (I. obesulus)

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)

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