PERAMELIDAE, Gray, 1825

Russell A. Mittermeier & Don E. Wilson, 2015, Peramelidae, Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 5 Monotremes and Marsupials, Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, pp. 362-398 : 362

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.6621742

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6620284

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scientific name

PERAMELIDAE
status

 

Family PERAMELIDAE View in CoL

(BANDICOOTS ECHYMIPERAS)

• Small to medium-sized marsupials, with long pointed snouts, rather small mouse-like ears, short tails and short limbs.

• 25-80 cm. View Figure

• Australasian Region. View Figure

• Low heathland, grassland, and woodland to denser forest and treeless subalpine habitat, from lowlands to mountain areas.

• 6 genera, 18 species, at least 35 extant taxa.

• 4 species Endangered, 1 species Vulnerable; 1 species and 1 subspecies Extinct since 1600.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

SubClass

Metatheria

Order

Peramelemorphia

Family

Peramelidae

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