Bandicota
| Bandicota Temporal range:
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| Lesser bandicoot rat (Bandicota bengalensis) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Muridae |
| Tribe: | Rattini |
| Genus: | Bandicota Gray, 1873 |
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Bandicota is a genus of rodents from Asia. They are 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.[1]
Species
Genus Bandicota - bandicoot rats.
- Lesser bandicoot rat, B. bengalensis Gray and Hardwicke, 1833
- Greater bandicoot rat, B. indica Bechstein, 1800
- Savile's bandicoot rat, B. savilei Thomas, 1916
References
- ^ 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. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4459.3.2. ISSN 1175-5334.
- Musser, G. G. and M. D. Carleton. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. pp. 894–1531 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
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