New Guinean long-nosed bandicoot

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.

New Guinean long-nosed bandicoots[1]
New Guinean long-nosed bandicoots
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Infraclass:	Marsupialia
Order:	Peramelemorphia
Family:	Peramelidae
Subfamily:	Peroryctinae Groves & Flannery, 1990
Genus:	Peroryctes Thomas, 1906
Type species
Perameles raffrayana A. Milne-Edwards, 1878
Species
Peroryctes broadbenti Peroryctes raffrayana

Two fossil taxa from Australia, Peroryctes tedfordi and then-unnamed Silvicultor hamiltonensis, were originally assigned to this genus,^[2] but they were subsequently transferred to the separate genus Silvicultor.^[3]