Western Barred Bandicoot

Western Barred Bandicoot

Taxobox
name = Western Barred BandicootMSW3 Groves|pages=39]
status = EN
status_system = iucn3.1
status_ref = IUCN2006 | assessors = Australasian Marsupial & Monotreme Specialist Group | year = 1996 | title = Perameles bougainville | id = 16569 | downloaded = 2006-12-26]


regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
infraclassis = Marsupialia
ordo = Peramelemorphia
familia = Peramelidae
genus = "Perameles"
species = "P. bougainville"
binomial = "Perameles bougainville"
binomial_authority = Quoy & Gaimard, 1824

The Western Barred Bandicoot ("Perameles bougainville"), also known as the Marl, is a small species of bandicoot found in Australia. It was once widespread across southern Australia from Western Australia to central New South Wales, but it is now confined to Bernier, Dorre and Faure islands in Shark Bay, Western Australia.cite book | last = Menkhorst | first = Peter | year = 2001 | title = A Field Guide to the Mammals of Australia | publisher = Oxford University Press | pages = 78] [cite book | author = Flannery, Tim | year = 2005 | title = Country: a continent, a scientist & a kangaroo | id = ISBN 1-920885-76-5]

The Western Barred Bandicoot is much smaller than its relative the Eastern Barred Bandicoot ("Perameles gunnii"), and is darker in its colouring, which is a grizzled brown. It measures about 1.5 feet in length. cite book| last = Ellis| first = Richard| authorlink = Richard Ellis (biologist) | title = No Turning Back: The Life and Death of Animal Species| publisher = Harper Perennial | date = 2004| location = New York| pages = 226| isbn =0-06-055804-0 ] It has two "bars" across its rump and has a short, tapered tail. It is a solitary and crepuscular hunter, eating insects, spiders, and worms and occasionally tubers and roots. When the bandicoot feels threatened, it typically leaps into the air and then burrows to safety.

This species is currently being re-introduced to nearby mainland areas of Western Australia, where predators such as the Red Fox are the subject of control programs. It has also been successfully reintroduced into the Arid Recovery Reserve in South Australia.

References

External links

* [http://www.arkive.org/species/GES/mammals/Perameles_bougainville/ ARKive on Western Barred Bandicoot]
* [http://www.aridrecovery.org.au Arid Recovery]


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  • western barred bandicoot — šiurkščiaplaukis ilganosis bandikutas statusas T sritis zoologija | vardynas taksono rangas rūšis atitikmenys: lot. Perameles bougainvillei angl. barred bandicoot; little barred bandicoot; little marl; little marl bandicoot; marl; western barred… …   Žinduolių pavadinimų žodynas

  • western barred bandicoot — noun a small bandicoot, Perameles bougainville, with a pointed nose and large ears, and brown fur on its back which shades to almost white underneath, and pale bars across its rump; once common in the central and south western parts of mainland… …  

  • western striped bandicoot — šiurkščiaplaukis ilganosis bandikutas statusas T sritis zoologija | vardynas taksono rangas rūšis atitikmenys: lot. Perameles bougainvillei angl. barred bandicoot; little barred bandicoot; little marl; little marl bandicoot; marl; western barred… …   Žinduolių pavadinimų žodynas

  • barred bandicoot — šiurkščiaplaukis ilganosis bandikutas statusas T sritis zoologija | vardynas taksono rangas rūšis atitikmenys: lot. Perameles bougainvillei angl. barred bandicoot; little barred bandicoot; little marl; little marl bandicoot; marl; western barred… …   Žinduolių pavadinimų žodynas

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  • little barred bandicoot — šiurkščiaplaukis ilganosis bandikutas statusas T sritis zoologija | vardynas taksono rangas rūšis atitikmenys: lot. Perameles bougainvillei angl. barred bandicoot; little barred bandicoot; little marl; little marl bandicoot; marl; western barred… …   Žinduolių pavadinimų žodynas

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  • little marl bandicoot — šiurkščiaplaukis ilganosis bandikutas statusas T sritis zoologija | vardynas taksono rangas rūšis atitikmenys: lot. Perameles bougainvillei angl. barred bandicoot; little barred bandicoot; little marl; little marl bandicoot; marl; western barred… …   Žinduolių pavadinimų žodynas

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