Common echymipera

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| name = Common echymipera{{MSW3 Groves|pages=41}}

| 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=Helgen, K. |author8=Seri, L. |author9=Aplin, K. |author10=Dickman, C. |author11=Salas, L. |date=2016 |title=Echymipera kalubu |volume=2016 |page=e.T7018A21966845 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T7018A21966845.en |access-date=12 November 2021}}

| genus = Echymipera

| species = kalubu

| authority = (J. Fischer, 1829)

| range_map = Common Spiny Bandicoot area.png

| range_map_caption = Common echymipera range

}}

The common echymipera (Echymipera kalubu), or common spiny bandicoot, is a bandicoot. It is long-snouted even by bandicoot standards. The upper parts are a coarse reddish-brown, flecked with spiny buff and black hairs. The tail is short and almost hairless. Length varies between {{cvt|30|and|40|cm}}, with the tail accounting for an additional {{cvt|8|to|10|cm}}; the weight is from {{cvt|0.6|to|2|kg}}.

Names

The name kalubu, from which the scientific name is derived, is from the Ma'ya language of the Raja Ampat Islands.{{Cite journal |last=Schapper |first=Antoinette |year=2011 |title=Phalanger Facts: Notes on Blust's Marsupial Reconstructions |journal=Oceanic Linguistics |volume=50 |issue=1 |pages=258–272 |doi=10.1353/ol.2011.0004|s2cid=145482148 }}

Distribution

The common echymipera is native to New Guinea. Its presence in the Admiralty Islands is due to human introduction several thousand years ago, but not before 13,000 B.P. However, unlike Phalangeridae species (cuscus), which have historically been widely introduced and distributed by humans, the Peramelidae (bandicoots) have generally not been spread as much via human introductions.

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}} The Common echymipera is a host of the Acanthocephalan intestinal parasite Australiformis semoni.{{Cite journal |doi = 10.2307/3282769|pmid = 2926590|jstor = 3282769|title = Australiformis semoni (Linstow, 1898) n. Gen., n. Comb. (Acanthocephala: Moniliformidae) from Marsupials of Australia and New Guinea|journal = The Journal of Parasitology|volume = 75|issue = 2|pages = 215–7|year = 1989|last1 = Schmidt|first1 = Gerald D.|last2 = Edmonds|first2 = Stanley J.}}

References

Category:Peramelemorphs

Category:Marsupials of New Guinea

Category:Mammals of Papua New Guinea

Category:Mammals of Western New Guinea

Category:Least concern biota of Oceania

Category:Mammals described in 1829

Category:Taxa named by Johann Baptist Fischer