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Peramelidae
Isoodon obesulus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Infraclass: Marsupialia Order: Peramelemorphia Family: Peramelidae Gray, 1825
Subfamilies and Genera
Peramelinae †Ischnodon Isoodon Perameles Peroryctinae Peroryctes Echymiperinae Echymipera Microperoryctes Rhynchomeles

Peramelidae is the family of marsupials that contains all of the extant bandicoots. One known extinct species of bandicoot, the Pig-footed Bandicoot, was so different than the other species that it was recently moved into its own family. There are four described fossil Peramelidae.

[edit] Classification

• Family Peramelidae
  • Subfamily Peramelinae
    • Genus Isoodon: short-nosed bandicoots
      • Golden Bandicoot, Isoodon auratus
      • Northern Brown Bandicoot, Isoodon macrourus
      • Southern Brown Bandicoot, Isoodon obesulus
      • Ischnodon australis (fossil)
    • Genus Perameles: long-nosed bandicoots
      • Western Barred Bandicoot, Perameles bougainville
      • Eastern Barred Bandicoot, Perameles gunnii
      • Long-nosed Bandicoot, Perameles nasuta
      • Desert Bandicoot, Perameles eremiana (extinct)
      • Perameles allinghamensis (fossil)
      • Perameles bowensis (fossil)
  • Subfamily Peroryctinae
    • Genus Peroryctes: New Guinean long-nosed bandicoots
      • Giant Bandicoot, Peroryctes broadbenti
      • Raffray's Bandicoot, Peroryctes raffrayana
      • Peroryctes tedfordi (fossil)
  • Subfamily Echymiperinae
    • Genus Echymipera: New Guinean spiny bandicoots
      • Long-nosed Spiny Bandicoot, Echymipera rufescens
      • Clara's Spiny Bandicoot, Echymipera clara
      • Menzies' Spiny Bandicoot, Echymipera echinista
      • Common Spiny Bandicoot, Echymipera kaluba
      • David's Spiny Bandicoot, Echymipera davidi
    • Genus Microperoryctes : New Guinean mouse bandicoots
      • Mouse Bandicoot, Microperoryctes murina
      • Eastern Striped Bandicoot, Microperoryctes ornata
      • Western Striped Bandicoot, Microperoryctes longicauda
      • Arfak Pygmy Bandicoot, Microperoryctes aplini
      • Papuan Bandicoot, Microperoryctes papuensis
    • Genus Rhynchomeles
      • Ceram Bandicoot, Rhynchomeles prattorum

[edit] References

• Groves, Colin (16 November 2005). in Wilson, D. E., and Reeder, D. M. (eds): Mammal Species of the World, 3rd edition, Johns Hopkins University Press, 39-42. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. 
• Schwartz, L.R. (2006). "A new species of bandicot from the Oligocene of Northern Australia and implications for correlating Australian Tertiary mammal faunas". Palaeontology 49 (5): 991–998. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2006.00584.x.