The striped bandicoot (''Microperoryctes longicauda'') is a species of

marsupial Marsupials are any members of the mammalian infraclass Marsupialia. All extant marsupials are endemic to Australasia, Wallacea and the Americas. A distinctive characteristic common to most of these species is that the young are carried in a po ...

in the family

Peramelidae The marsupial family Peramelidae contains all of 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 descri ...

. It is found in West Papua and

Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea (abbreviated PNG; , ; tpi, Papua Niugini; ho, Papua Niu Gini), officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea ( tpi, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niugini; ho, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niu Gini), is a country i ...

. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests. The striped bandicoot is a host of the

Acanthocephalan Acanthocephala (Greek , ', thorn + , ', head) is a phylum of parasitic worms known as acanthocephalans, thorny-headed worms, or spiny-headed worms, characterized by the presence of an eversible proboscis, armed with spines, which it uses to p ...

intestinal parasite '' Australiformis semoni''.

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Peramelemorphs Marsupials of New Guinea Mammals of Papua New Guinea Mammals of Western New Guinea Least concern biota of Oceania Mammals described in 1876 Taxa named by Wilhelm Peters Taxa named by Giacomo Doria Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{marsupial-stub