David's echymipera (''Echymipera davidi''), or David's spiny bandicoot, is a species of

marsupial Marsupials are a diverse group of mammals belonging to the infraclass Marsupialia. They are natively found in Australasia, Wallacea, and the Americas. One of marsupials' unique features is their reproductive strategy: the young are born in a r ...

in the family

Peramelidae The marsupial family Peramelidae contains the extant bandicoots. They are found throughout Australia and New Guinea, with at least some species living in every available habitat, from rainforest to desert. Four fossil peramelids are described. O ...

. It is found on the island of

Kiriwina Kiriwina is the largest of the Trobriand Islands, with an area of . It is part of the Milne Bay Province of Papua New Guinea. Most of the 12,000 people who live in the Trobriands live on Kiriwina. The Kilivila language, also known as Kiriwina, ...

, in the

Trobriand Islands The Trobriand Islands are a archipelago of coral atolls off the east coast of New Guinea. They are part of the nation of Papua New Guinea and are in Milne Bay Province. Most of the population of 60,000 (2016) indigenous inhabitants live on the m ...

of Papua New Guinea, and may be present on other nearby islands also.

References

Peramelemorphs Endemic fauna of Papua New Guinea Marsupials of New Guinea Mammals of Papua New Guinea Endangered fauna of Oceania Mammals described in 1990 Taxa named by Tim Flannery Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{marsupial-stub