Clara's echymipera

{{Short description|Species of marsupial}}

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| name = Clara's echymipera{{MSW3 Groves | pages = 41}}

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| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Leary, T. |author2=Wright, D. |author3=Hamilton, S. |author4=Singadan, R. |author5=Menzies, J. |author6=Bonaccorso, F. |author7=Salas, L. |author8=Seri, L. |author9=Dickman, C. |author10=Helgen, K. |author11=Aplin, K. |date=2016 |title=Echymipera clara |volume=2016 |page=e.T7015A21966942 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T7015A21966942.en |access-date=11 November 2021}}

| genus = Echymipera

| species = clara

| authority = Stein, 1932

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| range_map = Clara's Spiny Bandicoot area.png

| range_map_caption = Clara's echymipera range

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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.

It is hunted for human consumption in New Guinea.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}}

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