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The long-nosed echymipera, Echymipera rufescens, is a marsupial in the bandicoot family Peramelidae. It is also called the long-nosed spiny bandicoot or rufescent bandicoot, and its range includes New Guinea, parts of eastern Indonesia, and northeastern Australia, especially Cape York Peninsula. The...
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Recognized long-snouted bandicoot with solid specialist reputation; still obscure outside mammalogy, with limited popular-rating style consensus.
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Rhyncholestes raphanurus, the long-nosed caenolestid, is a living marsupial commonly grouped with the shrew-opossums. It is the sole species in the genus Rhyncholestes and was described from southern Chile in 1924. The animal is identified by its elongated snout and belongs to a South American marsu...
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Distinctive shrew opossum with stronger descriptive appeal; still mostly confined to specialist mammalogy attention.
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