Bandicota

Bandicota is a genus of rodents from Asia known as the bandicoot rats. Their common name and genus name are derived from the Telugu language word pandikokku (పందికొక్కు). DNA studies have found the group to be a monophyletic clade sister to the radiation of Molucca and Australian Rattus species as part of the paraphyletic Rattus sensu lato.

Bandicota
Temporal range: Holocene
Lesser bandicoot rat (Bandicota bengalensis)
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Muridae
Tribe: Rattini
Genus: Bandicota
Gray, 1873
Type species
Mus giganteus
Species

Bandicota bengalensis
Bandicota indica
Bandicota savilei

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