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Clara's echymipera

Echymipera clara Stein, 1932

LCLeast Concernmarsupials

The clara's echymipera (Echymipera clara) is a species in the family Peramelidae, order Peramelemorphia. Recorded adults weigh 1.21 kg to 1.24 kg. Source checklists list it for 1 country: Australia. Its IUCN Red List status is Least Concern.

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Quick facts about the clara's echymipera

Weight
1.21 kg – 1.24 kgsrc for Weight
Length
Not recorded
Lifespan
Not recorded
Diet
Invertivoresrc for Diet
Main food
Not recorded
Habitat
Not recorded
Young per litter or clutch
2.2src for Young per litter or clutch
Litters or clutches a year
1.93src for Litters or clutches a year
Active
At night (nocturnal)src for Active
Lifestyle
Terrestrialsrc for Lifestyle
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN)src for Conservation status
Countries on record
1 countrysrc for Countries on record

Where does the clara's echymipera live?

Countries where Catalogue of Life checklists list the species. Many checklists carry no country data, so the list is often incomplete. It is not a range map.

The clara's echymipera is listed for 1 country.

Australia
  • Listed
  • Not listed
small islands are not drawn at this scale

The same countries as a list

  1. Australia

Why a country list is not a range map

Listed by: ITIS (scope: global), through the Catalogue of Life.

What is the clara's echymipera?

Quoted from WikipediaCC BY-SA 4.0

Clara's echymipera (Echymipera clara), or Clara's spiny bandicoot or white-lipped bandicoot, is a species of marsupial in the family Peramelidae. It is found in West Papua, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests.

It is hunted for human consumption in New Guinea.

From the Wikipedia article “Clara's echymipera” (en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Clara%27s_echymipera&oldid=1314270586), by Wikipedia contributors, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0). This block is kept separate from our own text.

Is the clara's echymipera endangered?

The clara's echymipera is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List: it is not currently at risk of extinction.

  1. LCLeast Concern
  2. NTNear Threatened
  3. VUVulnerable
  4. ENEndangered
  5. CRCritically Endangered
  6. EWExtinct in the Wild
  7. EXExtinct

Category via Wikidata (CC0). Find the full assessment on the IUCN Red List. See all Least Concern species. What the categories mean.

How is the clara's echymipera classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumChordata
  3. classMammalia
  4. orderPeramelemorphia
  5. familyPeramelidae
  6. genusEchymipera
  7. SpeciesEchymipera clara Stein, 1932
Other names and names in other languages (19)
  • Clara bandicootEnglish
  • Clara bandicootEnglish
  • Clara s echymiperaEnglish
  • Clara’s echymiperaEnglish
  • Clara’s spiny bandicootEnglish
  • White-lipped bandicootEnglish
  • White-lipped bandicootEnglish
  • بندقوط أبيض الشفاهArabic
  • bandikutec běloústýCzech
  • Clara-StachelnasenbeutlerGerman
  • Bandicut Espinoso de Papúa SeptentrionalSpanish
  • metsäpiikkipusseliFinnish
  • Péramèle Épineux De ClaraFrench
  • Kalubu UremIndonesian
  • クチジロトゲバンディクートJapanese
  • ClarabuideldasDutch
  • torbokolec białoustyPolish
  • Bandicoot-espinho-setentrionalPortuguese
  • Колючий бандикутRussian

Catalogue of LifeWikipediaiNaturalistWikidataIUCN Red List

Relatives of the clara's echymipera

Other species in the same genus Echymipera.

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

How big is the clara's echymipera?

An adult clara's echymipera weighs 1.21 kg – 1.24 kg, according to values recorded on Wikidata.

Where does the clara's echymipera live?

Catalogue of Life checklists list the clara's echymipera for 1 country: Australia. Checklist coverage is uneven, so the true range may be wider.

Is the clara's echymipera endangered?

The clara's echymipera is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List, meaning it is not currently at risk of extinction.

What kind of animal is the clara's echymipera?

The clara's echymipera (Echymipera clara) belongs to the family Peramelidae in the order Peramelemorphia.

Sources and how to cite this page

Data as of 2026-11-11. How this page is put together.

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APA

CreatureData. (2026). Clara's echymipera (Echymipera clara). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/claras-echymipera

MLA

“Clara's echymipera (Echymipera clara).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/claras-echymipera.

BibTeX
@misc{claras_echymipera_2026,
  title = {Clara's echymipera (Echymipera clara)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/claras-echymipera},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-11}
}