Bandicota: taxon details and analytics

Domain
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Muridae
Genus: Bandicota
Species
Scientific Name: Bandicota

Summary description from Wikipedia:

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 in languages:

Bokmål: Bandikutrotter
Chinese: 板齒鼠屬
Czech: bandikota
English: Bandicoot Rats
English: Mole-Rats
Finnish: intianrotat
Polish: bandikot
Russian: Бандикоты

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