New Guinean long-nosed bandicoot
| New Guinean long-nosed bandicoots | |
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| New Guinean long-nosed bandicoots | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
| Order: | Peramelemorphia |
| Family: | Peramelidae |
| Subfamily: | Peroryctinae Groves & Flannery, 1990 |
| Genus: | Peroryctes Thomas, 1906 |
| Type species | |
| Perameles raffrayana A. Milne-Edwards, 1878 | |
| Species | |
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.
Two fossil taxa from Australia, Peroryctes tedfordi and then-unnamed Silvicultor hamiltonensis, were originally assigned to this genus, but they were subsequently transferred to the separate genus Silvicultor.