Clara's echymipera
Appearance
	
	
| Clara's echymipera[1] | |
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| Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia | 
| Phylum: | Chordata | 
| Class: | Mammalia | 
| Infraclass: | Marsupialia | 
| Order: | Peramelemorphia | 
| Family: | Peramelidae | 
| Genus: | Echymipera | 
| Species: | E. clara 
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| Binomial name | |
| Echymipera clara Stein, 1932 
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| Clara's echymipera range | |
Clara's echymipera (Echymipera clara), or Clara's spiny bandicoot or white-lipped bandicoot, is a species of marsupial in the family Peramelidae. It is found in West Papua, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests.[2]
It is hunted for human consumption in New Guinea.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Groves, C. P. (2005). Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 41. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. OCLC 62265494.
 - ^ a b Leary, T.; Wright, D.; Hamilton, S.; Singadan, R.; Menzies, J.; Bonaccorso, F.; Salas, L.; Seri, L.; Dickman, C.; Helgen, K.; Aplin, K. (2016). "Echymipera clara". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016 e.T7015A21966942. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T7015A21966942.en. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
 - ^ Margaretha Pangau-Adam & Richard Noske & Michael Muehlenberg. Wildmeat or Bushmeat? Subsistence Hunting and Commercial Harvesting in Papua (West New Guinea), Indonesia. Hum Ecol (2012) 40:611–621.doi:10.1007/s10745-012-9492-5