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New Guinean long-nosed bandicoots
New Guinean long-nosed bandicoots
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Infraclass:	Marsupialia
Order:	Peramelemorphia
Family:	Peramelidae
Subfamily:	Peroryctinae Groves & Flannery, 1990
Genus:	Peroryctes Thomas, 1906
Type species
Perameles raffrayana A. Milne-Edwards, 1878
Species
Peroryctes broadbenti Peroryctes raffrayana

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.

Two fossil taxa from Australia, Peroryctes tedfordi and then-unnamed Silvicultor hamiltonensis, were originally assigned to this genus, but they were subsequently transferred to the separate genus Silvicultor.

References

1. 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.
2. 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. S2CID 87278677.
3. 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. Bibcode:2017JVPal..37E0894T. doi:10.1080/02724634.2017.1360894. S2CID 90107606.

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