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true bandicoot en · NOUN

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1. Any member of the genus Perameles, subfamily Peramelinae, or family Peramelidae of bandicoots.
   • The other half of the true bandicoot family are the short-nosed bandicoots, which, as their name suggests, have short snouts. Outside the family of true bandicoots, the Peramelidae family, there are a few species commonly referred to as bandicoots. 2024, Andres Salazar, Strange Creatures: Exploring the Wonderful and Weird Animals ..., page 89:
   • it [Nesokia bandicoota] is usually found to be the large Mus decumanus or perhaps the rarer Nesokia nemorivagus that has been mistaken for the true bandicoot. 1891, John Anderson, Catalogue of Mammalia in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, page 58:
   • Examples [of Family Peramelidae].—The true bandicoot (Perameles), remarkable for its allantoic placenta 1910, Sir John Arthur Thomson, Outlines of Zoology, page 747:

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