New Guinean long-nosed bandicoot explained

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,^[1] but they were subsequently transferred to the separate genus Silvicultor.^[2]

Notes and References

1. Turnbull, W.D.. 2003 . Dasyurids, perameloids, phalangeroids and vomabatoids from the early Pliocene Hamilton fauna, Victoria, Australia . Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History . 10.1206/0003-0090(2003)279<0513:C>2.0.CO;2 . 279 . 513–540 . 87278677 . 0003-0090. etal.
2. Kenny J. Travouillon . Julien Louys . Gilbert J. Price . Michael Archer . Suzanne J. Hand . Jeanette Muirhead . 2017 . A review of the Pliocene bandicoots of Australia, and descriptions of new genus and species . Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology . 37 . 5 . e1360894 . 10.1080/02724634.2017.1360894 . 2017JVPal..37E0894T . 90107606 .