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Peramelidae (bandicoot)
Taxonomy
Peramelidae was named by Gray (1825). It is extant.
It was assigned to Marsupialia by Bonaparte (1850), Flower (1883); to Polyprotodontia by Cope (1889); to Polyprotodontia by Flower and Lydekker (1891); to Polyprotodontia by Gadow (1898); to Peramelina by Marshall (1974), Nowak (1991), Springer et al. (1994); to Peramelemorphia by Dawson et al. (1999), Wilson and Reeder (2005), Travouillon et al. (2014); and to Perameloidea by McKenna and Bell (1997), Travouillon et al. (2017).
It was assigned to Marsupialia by Bonaparte (1850), Flower (1883); to Polyprotodontia by Cope (1889); to Polyprotodontia by Flower and Lydekker (1891); to Polyprotodontia by Gadow (1898); to Peramelina by Marshall (1974), Nowak (1991), Springer et al. (1994); to Peramelemorphia by Dawson et al. (1999), Wilson and Reeder (2005), Travouillon et al. (2014); and to Perameloidea by McKenna and Bell (1997), Travouillon et al. (2017).
Subtaxa
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1825 | Peramelidae Gray |
| 1825 | Peramelina Gray p. 340 |
| 1850 | Peramelidae Bonaparte p. 1 |
| 1883 | Peramelidae Flower p. 184 |
| 1889 | Peramelidae Cope p. 876 |
| 1891 | Peramelidae Flower and Lydekker p. 89 |
| 1898 | Peramelidae Gadow p. 40 |
| 1974 | Peramelidae Marshall p. 66 |
| 1991 | Peramelidae Nowak |
| 1994 | Peramelidae Springer et al. p. 86 |
| 1997 | Peramelidae McKenna and Bell |
| 1999 | Peramelidae Dawson et al. p. 273 |
| 2005 | Peramelidae Wilson and Reeder |
| 2014 | Peramelidae Travouillon et al. pp. 376-7 |
| 2017 | Peramelidae Travouillon et al. p. 5 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
Fm. Peramelidae Gray 1825 [bandicoot]
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Subfm. Echymiperinae McKenna and Bell 1997
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G. Echymipera Lesson 1842 [New Guinean spiny bandicoot]
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Echymipera clara Stein 1932 [Claras echymipera]
Echymipera davidi Flannery 1990 [Davids echymipera]
Echymipera echinista Menzies 1990 [Menzies echymipera]
Echymipera kalubu Fischer 1829
Echymipera rufescens Peters and Doria 1875
G. Microperoryctes Stein 1932
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Microperoryctes longicauda Peters and Doria 1876 [Striped bandicoot]
Microperoryctes longicauda ornatus Thomas 1904
Microperoryctes murina Stein 1932 [Mouse bandicoot]
Microperoryctes papuensis Laurie 1952 [Papuan bandicoot]
G. Isoodon Desmarest 1817 [short-nosed bandicoot]
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Isoodon auratus Ramsay 1887 [Golden bandicoot]
Isoodon macrourus Gould 1842 [northern brown bandicoot]
†Isoodon obesulus Shaw 1797
G. Perameles Geoffroy 1804 [long-nosed bandicoot]
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†Perameles allinghamensis Archer and Wade 1976
†Perameles bougainville Quoy and Gaimard 1824
†Perameles bowensis Muirhead et al. 1997
Perameles eremiana Spencer 1897
Perameles gunnii Gray 1838 [eastern barred bandicoot]
Perameles nasuta Geoffroy 1804 [long-nosed bandicoot]
†Perameles sobbei Price 2002
†Perameles wilkinsonorum Travouillon et al. 2017
G. Peroryctes Thomas 1906
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Peroryctes broadbenti Ramsay 1879 [Giant bandicoot]
Peroryctes raffrayana Milne-Edwards 1878 [Raffrays bandicoot]
G. Thylacis Illiger 1811
Invalid names: Peramelina Gray 1825 [synonym], Peramelinae Gray 1825 [empty], Peroryctinae Groves and Flannery 1990 [empty]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: f = family, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009, Nowak 1991, Lillegraven 1979, Clemens 1979, Hopson 1973 | |||||
Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Middle Miocene to the top of the Holocene or 15.98000 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 11.63 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 11.63 Ma
Collections (52 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Miocene | Australia (Queensland) | Crash bandicoot (182167) | |
| Middle Miocene | Australia (Queensland) | Crash bandicoot (53951) Peramelidae indet. (151091) | |
| Early/Lower Pliocene | Australia (New South Wales) | Perameles bowensis (181610) | |
| Early/Lower Pliocene | Australia (Victoria) | Peroryctes sp. (135705) | |
| Early/Lower Pliocene | Australia (Queensland) | Perameles wilkinsonorum (13318) | |
| Zanclean | Australia (Queensland) | Perameles allinghamensis (51266 182159) | |
| Zanclean | Australia (Victoria) | Peramelidae indet. (70556) | |
| Early/Lower Pliocene - Late/Upper Pliocene | Australia (New South Wales) | Perameles bowensis (135691) | |
| Pliocene | Australia (New South Wales) | Perameles sp. (182842) | |
| Zanclean - Piacenzian | Australia (Victoria) | Peramelidae indet. (70572) | |
| Late/Upper Pliocene | Australia (Victoria) | Perameles sp., Isodon sp. (182150) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene | Australia (Western Australia) | Isoodon obesulus (181322) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene | Australia (New South Wales) | Perameles indet. (182211 182212 182213) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene | Australia ( New South Wales) | Perameles bougainville, Perameles gunnii (182621) | |
| Pleistocene | Australia (South Australia) | Isoodon obesulus, Perameles bougainville, Perameles gunnii (136076) Isoodon obesulus, Perameles gunnii (136073 136159 136430) Perameles gunni, Isoodon obesulus, Perameles bougainville (28298) | |
| Pleistocene | Australia (Victoria) | Perameles sp. (136221) Peramelidae indet. (70579 70581) | |
| Pleistocene | Australia (New South Wales) | Perameles nasuta, Isoodon obesulus (96019) Perameles nasuta, Isoodon obesulus, Perameles gunnii (96015) | |
| Pleistocene | Australia (Western Australia) | Perameles bougainrillei (182919 182924 182925) | |
| Quaternary | Australia (New South Wales) | Isoodon obesulus (181307) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | Australia (Queensland) | Isoodon sp., Perameles nasuta (183095) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | Australia (South Australia) | Isoodon obesulus, Perameles bougainville, Perameles gunnii (28364) | |
| Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene | Australia (South Australia) | Isoodon obesulus, Perameles bougainville, Perameles gunnii (182920 183262 183263) | |
| Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene | Australia (Queensland) | Isoodon macrourus (183080) Isoodon sp., Perameles nsauta (136730) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Australia (South Australia) | Isoodon obesulus, Perameles gunnii (136072) Perameles bougainville, Perameles gunnii (182957) Perameles indet., Isoodon obesulus, Perameles bougainville (181314) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Australia (New South Wales) | Isoodon obesulus (182321) Perameles nasuta, Isoodon obesulus (181897) Perameles wombeyensis (182447) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Australia (Victoria) | Perameles nasuta (197269) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene - Holocene | Australia (South Australia) | Perameles gunnii (136172) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene - Holocene | Australia (Western Australia) | Isoodon sp. (182819) | |
| Holocene | Australia (Queensland) | Isoodon macrourus, Perameles nasuta (21688) | |
| Holocene | Australia (New South Wales) | Perameles nasuta, Isoodon obesulus (235090) | |
| Holocene | Australia (Western Australia) | Isodon auratus (191983) Perameles sp., Isoodon obesulus (183094) |