The Papuan bandicoot (''Microperoryctes papuensis'') is a species of

marsupial Marsupials are any members of the mammalian infraclass Marsupialia. All extant marsupials are endemic to Australasia, Wallacea and the Americas. A distinctive characteristic common to most of these species is that the young are carried in a po ...

in the family

Peramelidae The marsupial family Peramelidae contains all of the extant bandicoots. They are found throughout Australia and New Guinea, with at least some species living in every available habitat, from rainforest to desert. Four fossil peramelids are descri ...

. It is

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsew ...

to the

Bird's Tail Peninsula The Papuan Peninsula, also known as the Bird's Tail Peninsula, is a large peninsula in Papua New Guinea, southeast of the city of Lae, that makes up the southeastern portion of the island of New Guinea. The peninsula is the easternmost extent of th ...

(Papua New Guinea). Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests. M. papuensis is a small bandicoot with a soft coat with a clear back, upper torso and face stripes. Its head to body length is , the tail is long, the hind foot is from long, the ears are long and the animal weighs .

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Peramelemorphs Endemic fauna of Papua New Guinea Fauna of the Papuan Peninsula Marsupials of New Guinea Mammals of Papua New Guinea Least concern biota of Oceania Mammals described in 1952 Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Taxa named by Eleanor Mary Ord Laurie {{marsupial-stub