New Guinean long-nosed bandicoot
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New Guinean long-nosed bandicoots[1] | |
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Peroryctinae
Groves and Flannery, 1990
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Peroryctes
Thomas, 1906
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Perameles raffrayana Milne-Edwards, 1878
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The New Guinean long-nosed bandicoots (genus Peroryctes) are members of the order Peramelemorphia. They are small to medium-sized marsupial omnivores native to New Guinea.
Fossil members of this genus have been found in Australia, including P. tedfordi and an unnamed species.[2]
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