Bandicota

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Name (Latin)
Bandicota
Other forms of name
Bandicoot rats
Bandicoots (Rodents)
Gunomys
See Also From tracing topical name
Muridae
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

Wikidata: Q3748384
Library of congress: sh 95001360
Sources of Information
  • Work cat.: Musser, G.G. Identification of bandicoot rats from Thailand (Bandicota, Muridae, Rodentia), c1994:p. 1 (bandicoots)
  • Walker mamm. world:v. 2, p. 827 (genus Bandicota, bandicoot rats. Muridae. 3 species)
  • Mamm. species of the world, 1993:p. 578 (Bandicota, Synonym: Gunomys. 3 species)
  • Corbet, G.B. The mammals of the Indo-Malayan region, 1992:p. 352 (Bandicota, bandicoot-rats, 3 species. "This genus is closely related to Nesokia (the prior name)")
  • Corbet. World list mamm. species:p. 194 (Bandicota (Gunomys), bandicoot-rats. 3 species)
  • Web. 3(Bandicoot, or bandicoot rat: any of several very large rats of Nesokia and related genera of India and Ceylon ...)
  • Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, 1908:v. 18, pp. 736-752 (bandicoots)

Wikipedia description:

Bandicota is a genus of rodents 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.

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