Peramelidae

Peramelidae Temporal range: Miocene - Recent
An eastern barred bandicoot
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Infraclass:	Marsupialia
Order:	Peramelemorphia
Family:	Peramelidae Gray, 1825
Type genus
Perameles Geoffroy, 1804
Subfamilies and genera
Peramelinae Isoodon Perameles Crash † Peroryctinae Peroryctes Echymiperinae Echymipera Microperoryctes Rhynchomeles

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, was so different from the other species, it was recently moved into its own family.

Characteristics

Peramelids are small marsupials, ranging in size from the mouse bandicoot, which is 15–17.5 cm long, to the giant bandicoot, which at 39–56 cm in length and up 4.7 kg in weight, is about the size of a rabbit. They have short limbs and tails, smallish, mouse-like ears, and a long, pointed snout.^[1]

Peramelids are omnivorous, with soil-dwelling invertebrates forming the major part of their diet; they also eat seeds, fruit, and fungi. Their teeth are correspondingly unspecialised, with most species having the dental formula 5.1.3.43.1.3.4

Female peramelids have a pouch that opens to the rear and contains eight teats. The maximum litter size is, therefore, eight, since marsupial young are attached to the teat during development, although two to four young per litter is a more typical number. The gestation period of peramelids is the shortest among mammals, at just 12.5 days, the young are weaned around two months of age, and reach sexual maturity at just three months. This allows a given female to produce more than one litter per breeding season and gives peramelids an unusually high reproductive rate compared with other marsupials.^[1]

Classification

Upham et al. 2019[2][3]

Peramelidae Rhynchomeles Peramelinae Isoodon Perameles Peroryctinae Peroryctes Echymiperinae Echymipera Microperoryctes

Álvarez-Carretero et al. 2022[4][5]

Peramelidae Peramelinae Isoodon Perameles Peroryctinae Peroryctes Echymiperinae Rhynchomeles ] Microperoryctes

The listing for extant species is based on The Third edition of Wilson & Reeder's Mammal Species of the World (2005), except where the Mammal Diversity Database and IUCN agree on a change.

• Family Peramelidae
  • Subfamily
    Peramelinae
    • Genus
      Crash†^[6]
      • Crash bandicoot† (fossil)^[7]
        |
    • Genus
      Isoodon
      : short-nosed bandicoots
      • Golden bandicoot, Isoodon auratus
      • Northern brown bandicoot, Isoodon macrourus
      • Southern brown bandicoot, Isoodon obesulus
    • Genus Perameles: long-nosed or barred bandicoots
      • Western barred bandicoot, Perameles bougainville
      • Desert bandicoot, Perameles eremiana† (extinct)
      • New South Wales barred bandicoot, Perameles fasciata† (extinct)
      • Eastern barred bandicoot, Perameles gunnii
      • Southwestern barred bandicoot, Perameles myosuros† (extinct)
      • Long-nosed bandicoot, Perameles nasuta
      • Southern barred bandicoot, Perameles notina† (extinct)
      • Ooldea barred bandicoot, Perameles papillon)† (extinct)^[8]
      • Perameles allinghamensis† (fossil)
      • Perameles bowensis† (fossil)
      • Perameles sobbei† (fossil)
  • Subfamily
    Peroryctinae
    • Genus
      Peroryctes
      : New Guinean long-nosed bandicoots
      • Giant bandicoot, Peroryctes broadbenti
      • Raffray's bandicoot, Peroryctes raffrayana
      • cf. Peroryctes tedfordi† (fossil)
      • cf. Peroryctes sp.† (fossil)
  • Subfamily
    Echymiperinae
    • Genus
      Echymipera
      : New Guinean spiny bandicoots
      • Long-nosed spiny bandicoot
        , Echymipera rufescens
      • Clara's spiny bandicoot
        , Echymipera clara
      • Menzies' spiny bandicoot
        , Echymipera echinista
      • Common spiny bandicoot
        , Echymipera kalubu
      • David's spiny bandicoot
        , Echymipera davidi
    • Genus
      Microperoryctes
       : New Guinean mouse bandicoots
      • Mouse bandicoot, Microperoryctes murina
      • Western striped bandicoot
        , Microperoryctes longicauda
      • Arfak pygmy bandicoot, Microperoryctes aplini
      • Papuan bandicoot, Microperoryctes papuensis
    • Genus
      Rhynchomeles
      • Seram bandicoot, Rhynchomeles prattorum

See also

• List of mammal genera
• List of recently extinct mammals
• List of prehistoric mammals

References

• OCLC 62265494
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• Schwartz, L.R. (2006). "A new species of bandicot from the Oligocene of Northern Australia and implications for correlating Australian Tertiary mammal faunas". Palaeontology. 49 (5): 991–998.
  S2CID 84073016
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External links

• Gordon, G.; Hulbert, A.J. (1989). "Part 24:Peramelidae". Fauna of Australia Volume 1B Mammalia (PDF). Canberra, Australia:
  ISBN 978-0-644-06056-1. Retrieved 12 February 2011. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help
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