Bandicota

Bandicota is a genus of rodents from Asia. They are known as the bandicoot rats. Their common name and genus name are derived from the Telugu language word pandikokku (పందికొక్కు). DNA studies have found the group to be a monophyletic clade sister to the radiation of Molucca and Australian Rattus species, as part of the paraphyletic Rattus sensu lato.[1]

"Bandicoot rat" redirects here. For other species known by this name, see Nesokia.

Bandicota
Temporal range: Recent
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Lesser bandicoot rat (Bandicota bengalensis)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Muridae
Subfamily: Murinae
Genus: Bandicota
Gray, 1873
Species

Bandicota bengalensis
Bandicota indica
Bandicota savilei

Species

Genus Bandicota - bandicoot rats.

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References
  1. THOMSON, VICKI; WIEWEL, ANDREW; CHINEN, ALDO; MARYANTO, IBNU; SINAGA, M. H.; HOW, RIC; APLIN, KEN; SUZUKI, HITOSHI (2018-08-15). "A perspective for resolving the systematics of Rattus, the vertebrates with the most influence on human welfare". Zootaxa. 4459 (3): 431. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4459.3.2. ISSN 1175-5334.
  • Musser, G. G. and M. D. Carleton. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. pp. 894–1531 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.


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