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Peramelemorphia
Sign in to saveThe order Peramelemorphia includes the bandicoots and bilbies. All members of the order are endemic to Australia-New Guinea and most have the characteristic bandicoot shape: a plump, arch-backed body with a long, delicately tapering snout, very large upright ears, relatively long, thin legs, and a thin tail. Their size varies from about 140 grams up to 4 kilograms, but most species are about one kilogram.
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Peramelemorphia is an order of mammals within the class Mammalia and phylum Chordata. The taxon belongs to the kingdom Animalia and was established by Ameghino in 1889. Its scientific name is Peramelemorphia, and it holds an accepted status in taxonomic records.
Specimens associated with this order have been documented in Australia and Papua New Guinea. These records are held by institutions including SAMA, WAM, and BPBM. The taxon is referenced by 162 other encyclopedia articles.
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Species
Peramelemorphia
ORDER
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassMammalia
- OrderPeramelemorphia
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 17
- Collections
- SAMA, WAM, BPBM
- Recorded in
- Australia, Papua New Guinea
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Image
- Taxidermied Bandicoot.jpg
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- Code of nomenclature
- International Code of Zoological Nomenclature
- Commons category
- Peramelemorphia
- taxon name
- Peramelemorphia
- taxon rank
- order
- topic's main category
- Category:Peramelemorphs
- endemic to
- Australia
- taxon common name
- grevlingpungdyr
- temporal range start
- Rupelian
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- Phylogeny
- Placement within Marsupialia
- Relationships within Peramelemorphia
- Fossil record
- See also
- References
The order Peramelemorphia includes the bandicoots and bilbies. All members of the order are endemic to Australia-New Guinea and most have the characteristic bandicoot shape: a plump, arch-backed body with a long, delicately tapering snout, very large upright ears, relatively long, thin legs, and a thin tail. Their size varies from about 140 grams up to 4 kilograms, but most species are about one kilogram.
==Phylogeny==
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