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Menzies' echymipera

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Species of marsupial

Menzies' echymipera
Conservation status

Data Deficient  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Infraclass: Marsupialia
Order: Peramelemorphia
Family: Peramelidae
Genus: Echymipera
Species: E. echinista
Binomial name
Echymipera echinista
Menzies, 1990
Menzies' echymipera range

Menzies' echymipera (Echymipera echinista), or Menzies' spiny bandicoot or Fly River bandicoot, is a species of marsupial in the family Peramelidae. It is endemic to Papua New Guinea.

References

  1. 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.
  2. ^ Leary, T.; Wright, D.; Hamilton, S.; Singadan, R.; Menzies, J.; Bonaccorso, F.; Helgen, K.; Seri, L.; Aplin, K.; Dickman, C.; Salas, L. (2016). "Echymipera echinista". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T7016A21967022. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T7016A21967022.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
Extant Peramelemorphia species by family
Thylacomyidae
(Bilbies)
Macrotis
Peramelidae
(Bandicoots)
Isoodon
(Short-nosed
bandicoots)
Perameles
(Long-nosed
bandicoots)
Peroryctes
(New Guinean long-
nosed bandicoots)
Echymipera
(New Guinean
spiny bandicoots)
Microperoryctes
(New Guinean
mouse bandicoots)
Rhynchomeles
Category
Taxon identifiers
Echymipera echinista


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