Bandicota

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Bandicota Fossil range: Recent
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Class: Mammalia Order: Rodentia Family: Muridae Subfamily: Murinae Genus: Bandicota Gray, 1873
Species
Bandicota bengalensis Bandicota indica Bandicota savilei

Bandicota is a genus of rodent from Asia. They are known as the bandicoot rats.

[edit] Species

• Genus Bandicota
  • Bandicota bengalensis (Gray and Hardwicke, 1833)
  • Bandicota indica (Bechstein, 1800)
  • Bandicota savilei Thomas, 1916

[edit] References

• 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.