Raffray's bandicoot (''Peroryctes raffrayana'') is a species of
marsupial in the family
Peroryctidae
The New Guinean long-nosed bandicoots (genus ''Peroryctes'') are members of the order (biology), order Peramelemorphia. They are small to medium-sized marsupial omnivores native to New Guinea.
Two fossil taxa from Australia, ''Peroryctes tedford ...
. It is found in
Indonesia and
Papua New Guinea. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests.
It is known as pakam in the
Kalam language of
Papua New Guinea.
[Pawley, Andrew and Ralph Bulmer. 2011. ''A Dictionary of Kalam with Ethnographic Notes''. Canberra. Pacific Linguistics.]
References
Peramelemorphs
Endemic fauna of Papua New Guinea
Marsupials of New Guinea
Mammals of Papua New Guinea
Least concern biota of Oceania
Mammals described in 1878
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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