Common Spiny Bandicoot

Taxobox
name = Common Spiny Bandicoot
status = LC
status_system = iucn3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
infraclassis = Marsupialia
ordo = Peramelemorphia
familia = Peramelidae
genus = "Echymipera"
species = "E. kalubu"
binomial = "Echymipera kalubu"
binomial_authority = (Fischer, 1829)

The Common Spiny Bandicoot ("Echymipera kalubu") is a bandicoot. It is long-snouted even by bandicoot standards. The upper parts are a coarse reddish brown, flecked with spiny buff and black hairs. The tail is short and almost hairless. Length varies between 300 and 400 mm, with the tail accounting for an additional 80 to 100 mm; weight is from 600 to 2000 g.

The Common Spiny Bandicoot is native to New Guinea.

References

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