Bandicoot

Bandicoots
Temporal range: Late Oligocene - Recent
Eastern barred bandicoot (Perameles gunni)
Eastern barred bandicoot (Perameles gunni)
Scientific classificationEdit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Infraclass: Marsupialia
Clade: Agreodontia
Order: Peramelemorphia
Superfamilies, etc.

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Bandicoots are a group of more than 20 species of small to medium-sized, terrestrial, largely nocturnal marsupial omnivores in the order Peramelemorphia.[1] They are endemic to the AustraliaNew Guinea region, including the Bismarck Archipelago to the east and Seram and Halmahera to the west.

  1. ^ Bandicoot. Encyclopaedia Britannica. 7 October 2020. Retrieved 29 June 2021.

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