Echymipera clara

– Data Deficient

Taxonomy

Kingdom:

ANIMALIA

Phylum:

CHORDATA

Class:

MAMMALIA

Order:

PERAMELEMORPHIA

Family:

PERAMELIDAE

Scientific Name:

Echymipera clara

Species Authority:

Stein, 1932

Common Name/s:

English	—	CLARA BANDICOOT, CLARA'S ECHYMIPERA, WHITE-LIPPED BANDICOOT
French	—	PÉRAMÈLE ÉPINEUX DE CLARA

Taxonomic Notes:

Was under family Peroryctidae.

Assessment Information

Red List Category & Criteria:

DD ver 2.3 (1994)

Year Assessed:

1996

Annotations:

Needs updating

Assessor/s:

Australasian Marsupial & Monotreme Specialist Group

History:

1982	-	Rare (Thornback and Jenkins 1982)
1986	-	Rare (IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre 1986)
1988	-	Rare (IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre 1988)
1990	-	Rare (IUCN 1990)
1994	-	Rare (Groombridge 1994)

Geographic Range

Countries:

Native:

Indonesia; Papua New Guinea

Population

Population Trend:

Habitat and Ecology

System:

Terrestrial

List of Habitats:

1.5	Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Dry

Threats

List of Threats:

1.1	Habitat Loss/Degradation - Agriculture (ongoing)
3	Harvesting (hunting/gathering) (ongoing)

Bibliography

Bibliography:

Groombridge, B. (ed.) 1994. 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.

IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre. 1986. 1986 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre. 1988. 1988 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

IUCN. 1990. 1990 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

Thornback, J. and Jenkins, M. 1982. The IUCN Mammal Red Data Book. Part 1: Threatened mammalian taxa of the Americas and the Australasian zoogeographic region (excluding Cetacea). IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.

Citation:	Australasian Marsupial & Monotreme Specialist Group 1996. Echymipera clara. In: IUCN 2007. 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 20 August 2008.
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