Perameles Temporal range: Pleistocene - Recent
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Perameles myosuros | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
Order: | Peramelemorphia |
Family: | Peramelidae |
Subfamily: | Peramelinae |
Genus: | Perameles É. Geoffroy, 1804 |
Type species | |
Perameles nasuta É. Geoffroy, 1804
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Perameles is a genus of marsupials of the order Peramelemorphia. They are referred to as long-nosed bandicoots or barred bandicoots.[1][2]
Perameles, or ‘pouched badger’, is a hybrid word, from the Greek pera (πήρα, ‘pouch, bag’) and the Latin mēles (‘marten, badger’).[3]
More than half the known recent species of Perameles have been driven to extinction, although these extinct species were long considered conspecific with P. bougainville, a 2018 study determined them to be distinct species.[4]
The extant species are:
The recently extinct species are:
Fossil species are,