Raffray's Bandicoot - Peroryctes raffrayana
( Milne-Edwards, 1878 )

 

 

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Subspecies: Unknown
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CITES Status: NOT LISTED
IUCN Status: Least Concern
U.S. ESA Status: NOT LISTED

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Life Span: in Captivity

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Habitat:
The species occurs in montane and upper montane tropical moist forests, and montane grasslands. It is rarely found in secondary or regenerating forest, preferring undisturbed forest. Animals have been recorded from secondary forests, but the species is fairly intolerant of habitat disturbance. The average litter size is one or two young (Flannery 1995a).

Range:
Raffray's Bandicoot is widespread throughout the highlands of New Guinea (Indonesia and Papua New Guinea), and it is also found on Yapen Island (Flannery 1995a,b). It occurs from 60 to 3,900 m asl, though it is most common at around 1,000 m asl (Flannery 1995a).

Conservation:
This species occurs in a number of protected areas.

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