- The
order Peramelemorphia /pɛrəmɛlɪˈmɔːrfiə/
includes the
bandicoots and bilbies. All
members of the
order are
endemic to Australia-New
Guinea and most...
-
order of
Australian marsupial mammals.
Members of this
order are
called peramelemorphs and
include bandicoots and bilbies. They are
found in
Australia and...
- and the word "bandicoot" is
often used
informally to
refer to any
peramelemorph, such as the bilby. The term
originally referred to the
unrelated Indian...
- the
subfamily Chaeropodinae. Here is a
summary of the
treatment as a
peramelemorph family:
Peramelemorphia Thylacomyidae Genus Macrotis Macrotis lagotis...
- The
southern brown bandicoot (Isoodon obesulus) is a short-nosed bandicoot, a type of marsupial,
found mostly in
southern Australia. A
subspecies in Western...
- The
eastern barred bandicoot (Perameles gunnii) is a nocturnal, rabbit-sized
marsupial endemic to
southeastern Australia,
being native to the
island of...
- The long-nosed
bandicoot (Perameles nasuta), a marsupial, is a
species of
bandicoot found in
eastern Australia, from
north Queensland along the east coast...
- The
lesser bilby (Macrotis leucura), also
known as the yallara, the
lesser rabbit-eared
bandicoot or the white-tailed rabbit-eared bandicoot, was a rabbit-like...
- The
greater bilby, or
simply bilby, (Macrotis lagotis) is a long-eared, rabbit-like
mammal native to Australia. It
lives in
burrows and is
active at night...
- The
southern pig-footed
bandicoot (Chaeropus ecaudatus) was a
small species of
herbivorous marsupial in the
genus Chaeropus, the pig-footed bandicoots...
