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Bandicota

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Bandicota Temporal range: Holocene

Lesser bandicoot rat (Bandicota bengalensis)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Muridae
Tribe:	Rattini
Genus:	Bandicota Gray, 1873
Type species
Mus giganteus^[1]
Species
Bandicota bengalensis Bandicota indica Bandicota savilei

Bandicota is a genusofrodents 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[edit]

Greater bandicoot rat (B. indica) Bechstein, 1800
Lesser bandicoot rat (B. bengalensis) Gray and Hardwicke, 1833
Savile's bandicoot rat (B. savilei) Thomas, 1916

References[edit]

^ Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M., eds. (2005). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.

^ 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.