New Guinean long-nosed bandicoots | |
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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 |
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Species | |
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.
Fossil members of this genus have been found in Australia, including P. tedfordi and an unnamed species.