Perameles is a genus of marsupials of the order Peramelemorphia.

They are referred to as long-nosed bandicoots or barred bandicoots.

[1][2] Perameles, or ‘pouched badger’, is a hybrid word, from the Greek pera (πήρα, ‘pouch, bag’) and the Latin mēles (‘marten, badger’).

[3] More than half the known recent species of Perameles have been driven to extinction, although these extinct species were long considered conspecific with P. bougainville, a 2018 study determined them to be distinct species.

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