Peramelinae Peroryctinae Echymiperinae The marsupial family Peramelidae contains the extant bandicoots.

They have short limbs and tails, smallish, mouse-like ears, and a long, pointed snout.

[1] Peramelids are omnivorous, with soil-dwelling invertebrates forming the major part of their diet; they also eat seeds, fruit, and fungi.

Their teeth are correspondingly unspecialised, with most species having the dental formula 5.1.3.43.1.3.4 Female peramelids have a pouch that opens to the rear and contains eight teats.

This allows a given female to produce more than one litter per breeding season and gives peramelids an unusually high reproductive rate compared with other marsupials.