''Perameles'' is a genus of marsupials of the
order
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Peramelemorphia
The order Peramelemorphia includes the bandicoots and bilbies; it equates approximately to the mainstream of marsupial omnivores. All members of the order are endemic to the twin land masses of Australia-New Guinea and most have the characteris ...
. They are referred to as long-nosed bandicoots or barred bandicoots.
''Perameles'', or ‘pouched badger’, is a
hybrid word, from the Greek (πήρα, ‘pouch, bag’) and the Latin (‘marten, badger’).
More than half the known recent species of ''Perameles'' have been driven to
extinction
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, although these extinct species were long considered conspecific with ''
P. bougainville'', a 2018 study determined them to be distinct species.
The extant and recently extinct species are:
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Western barred bandicoot
The Western barred bandicoot (''Perameles bougainville''), also known as the Marl, is a small species of bandicoot; now extinct across most of its former range, the western barred bandicoot only survives on offshore islands and in fenced sanctua ...
(''P. bougainville'')
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Desert bandicoot (''P. eremiana'')
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New South Wales barred bandicoot (''P. fasciata'')
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Eastern barred bandicoot
The eastern barred bandicoot (''Perameles gunnii'') is a nocturnal, rabbit-sized marsupial endemic to southeastern Australia, being native to the island of Tasmania and mainland Victoria. It is one of three surviving bandicoot species in the g ...
(''P. gunnii'')
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Southwestern barred bandicoot (''P. myosuros'')
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Long-nosed bandicoot (''P. nasuta'')
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Southern barred bandicoot
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(''P. notina'')
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Queensland barred bandicoot (''P. pallescens'')
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Ooldea barred bandicoot (''P. papillon'')
Fossil species are,
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P. allinghamensis''
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P. bowensis''
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P. sobbei''
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P. wilkinsonorum''
References
External links
*ARKive
images and movies of the western barred bandicoot ''(Perameles bougainville)''
Peramelemorphs
Marsupials of Australia
Mammal genera
Taxa named by Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
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