Clara's echymipera
Species of marsupial
Clara's echymipera[1] | |
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Conservation status | |
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[2] | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
Order: | Peramelemorphia |
Family: | Peramelidae |
Genus: | Echymipera |
Species: | E. clara |
Binomial name | |
Echymipera clara Stein, 1932 | |
Clara's echymipera range |
Clara's echymipera (Echymipera clara), or Clara's spiny bandicoot or white-lipped bandicoot, is a species of marsupial in the family Peramelidae. It is found in West Papua, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests.[2]
It is hunted for human consumption in New Guinea.[3]
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. 41. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. OCLC 62265494.
- ^ a b Leary, T.; Wright, D.; Hamilton, S.; Singadan, R.; Menzies, J.; Bonaccorso, F.; Salas, L.; Seri, L.; Dickman, C.; Helgen, K.; Aplin, K. (2016). "Echymipera clara". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T7015A21966942. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T7015A21966942.en. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
- ^ Margaretha Pangau-Adam & Richard Noske & Michael Muehlenberg. Wildmeat or Bushmeat? Subsistence Hunting and Commercial Harvesting in Papua (West New Guinea), Indonesia. Hum Ecol (2012) 40:611–621.doi:10.1007/s10745-012-9492-5
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Extant Peramelemorphia species by family
- Kingdom Animalia
- Phylum Chordata
- Class Mammalia
- Infraclass Marsupialia
(Bilbies)
Macrotis |
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(Bandicoots)
Isoodon (Short-nosed bandicoots) |
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Perameles (Long-nosed bandicoots) |
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Peroryctes (New Guinean long- nosed bandicoots) |
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Echymipera (New Guinean spiny bandicoots) |
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Microperoryctes (New Guinean mouse bandicoots) |
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Rhynchomeles |
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