New Guinean long-nosed bandicoot
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.
| New Guinean long-nosed bandicoots[1] | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
| Order: | Peramelemorphia |
| Family: | Peramelidae |
| Subfamily: | Peroryctinae Groves and Flannery, 1990 |
| Genus: | Peroryctes Thomas, 1906 |
| Type species | |
| Perameles raffrayana Milne-Edwards, 1878 | |
| Species | |
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]
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. p. 40. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. OCLC 62265494.
- Turnbull, W.D.; et al. (2003). "Dasyurids, perameloids, phalangeroids and vomabatoids from the early Pliocene Hamilton fauna, Victoria, Australia". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 279: 513–540. doi:10.1206/0003-0090(2003)279<0513:C>2.0.CO;2. ISSN 0003-0090.
- Kenny J. Travouillon; Julien Louys; Gilbert J. Price; Michael Archer; Suzanne J. Hand; Jeanette Muirhead (2017). "A review of the Pliocene bandicoots of Australia, and descriptions of new genus and species". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 37 (5): e1360894. doi:10.1080/02724634.2017.1360894.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.