Peramelemorphia
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| Peramelemorphia Temporal range: Oligocene - Recent |
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| a short-nosed bandicoot | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
| Order: | Peramelemorphia Kirsch, 1968 |
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Chaeropodidae Gill, 1872 |
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The order Peramelemorphia includes the bandicoots and bilbies: it equates approximately to the mainstream of marsupial omnivores. This small order of mammals consists of some lesser known marsupials, which are native to New Guinea and Australia.
