Species profile—Echymipera rufescens (rufous spiny bandicoot)
Classification
Animalia (animals) → Mammalia (mammals) → Peramelidae (Bandicoots) → Echymipera rufescens (rufous spiny bandicoot)
Sighting data
Species details
- Kingdom
- Animalia (animals)
- Class
- Mammalia (mammals)
- Family
- Peramelidae (Bandicoots)
- Scientific name
- Echymipera rufescens (Peters & Doria, 1875)
- Common name
- rufous spiny bandicoot
- Type reference
- Peters, W. & Doria, G. (1875). Diagnosi di alcune nuove specie di Marsupiali appartenenti all Fauna papuana. Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Genova 7: 541-544
- WildNet taxon ID
- 782
- Alternate name(s)
- spiny bandicoot
rufescent bandicoot - Nature Conservation Act 1992 (NCA) status
- Least concern
- Conservation significant
- No
- Endemicity
- Native
- Pest status
- Nil
Other resources
Data source
This profile data is sourced from the QLD Wildlife Data API using the Get species by ID function used under CC-By 4.0.
https://apps.des.qld.gov.au/species/?op=getspeciesbyid&taxonid=782.
This information is sourced from the WildNet database managed by the Queensland Department of Environment and Science.
