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The '''long-nosed bandicoots''' ([[genus]] '''''Perameles''''') are members of the [[order (biology)|order]] [[Peramelemorphia]]. |
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''Perameles'', or ‘pouched badger’, is a [[hybrid word]], from the Greek ''{{transl|grc|pera}}'' (πήρα, ‘pouch, bag’) and the Latin {{lang|la|''[[wikt:meles#Latin|mēles]]''}} (‘marten, badger’).<ref name=OED>{{OED|Perameles}}</ref> |
''Perameles'', or ‘pouched badger’, is a [[hybrid word]], from the Greek ''{{transl|grc|pera}}'' (πήρα, ‘pouch, bag’) and the Latin {{lang|la|''[[wikt:meles#Latin|mēles]]''}} (‘marten, badger’).<ref name=OED>{{OED|Perameles}}</ref> |
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Perameles bougainville | |
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Genus: | Perameles É. Geoffroy, 1804
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Perameles nasuta É. Geoffroy, 1804
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The long-nosed bandicoots (genus Perameles) are members of the order Peramelemorphia.
Perameles, or ‘pouched badger’, is a hybrid word, from the Greek pera (πήρα, ‘pouch, bag’) and the Latin [mēles] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help) (‘marten, badger’).[3]
Extant species in this genus:
- Western barred bandicoot (P. bougainville)
- Eastern barred bandicoot (P. gunnii)
- Long-nosed bandicoot (P. nasuta)
Extinct species in this genus:
References
- ^ Groves, C. P. (2005). Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 40. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. OCLC 62265494.
- ^ "Mikko's Phylogeny Archive - Peramelia". Retrieved 2008-03-12.
- ^ "Perameles". Oxford English Dictionary (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. (Subscription or participating institution membership required.)
- ^ Archer, M. & Wade, M. 1976. Results of the Ray E. Lemley expeditions, part 1: The Allingham Formation and a new Pliocene vertebrate fauna from northern Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 17, 54–58.
- ^ Muirhead, J., Dawson, L. & Archer, M. 1997. Perameles bowensis, a new species of Perameles (Peramelomorphia, Marsupialia) from Pliocene faunas of Bow and Wellington caves, New South Wales. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 17, 163–174.
- ^ Price, G. J. 2002. Perameles sobbei, sp. nov. (Marsupialia, Peramelidae), a Pleistocene bandicoot from the Darling Downs, south-eastern Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 48, 193-197.
- ^ Price, G. J. 2005. Fossil bandicoots (Marsupialia, Peramelidae) and environmental change during the Pleistocene on the Darling Downs, southeastern Queensland, Australia. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 4, 347-356.
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