Bandicota

Bandicota
Temporal range: Holocene
Lesser bandicoot rat (Bandicota bengalensis)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Muridae
Tribe: Rattini
Genus:
Gray, 1873
Type species
Mus giganteus[1]
Species

Bandicota bengalensis
Bandicota indica
Bandicota savilei

Bandicota is a genus of rodents from Asia known as the bandicoot rats. Their common name and genus name are derived from the Telugu language word pandikokku (పందికొక్కు). DNA studies have found the group to be a monophyletic clade sister to the radiation of Molucca and Australian Rattus species as part of the paraphyletic Rattus sensu lato.[2]

Species

References

  1. ^ Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M., eds. (2005). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
  2. ^ THOMSON, VICKI; WIEWEL, ANDREW; CHINEN, ALDO; MARYANTO, IBNU; SINAGA, M. H.; HOW, RIC; APLIN, KEN; SUZUKI, HITOSHI (2018-08-15). "A perspective for resolving the systematics of Rattus, the vertebrates with the most influence on human welfare". Zootaxa. 4459 (3): 431–452. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4459.3.2. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 30314119.


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