| Peramelidae Temporal range: Miocene - Recent | |
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| An eastern barred bandicoot | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
| Order: | Peramelemorphia |
| Family: | Peramelidae Gray, 1825 |
| Type genus | |
| Perameles Geoffroy, 1804 | |
| Subfamilies and genera | |
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| Peramelidae distribution | |
The marsupial family Peramelidae includes the bandicoots that are alive today. They live all over Australia and New Guinea. Some bandicoots live in every kind of place, like rainforests and deserts. Scientists have found four kinds of fossil bandicoots. One bandicoot that is now extinct, called the pig-footed bandicoot, was very different from the others. Because of this, it was recently placed in its own family.
