Menzies' echymipera
Echymipera echinista Menzies, 1990
The menzies' echymipera (Echymipera echinista) is a species in the family Peramelidae, order Peramelemorphia. Recorded adults weigh 1 kg to 1.21 kg. Source checklists list it for 1 country: Australia. Its IUCN Red List status is Data Deficient.
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Quick facts about the menzies' echymipera
- Weight
- 1 kg – 1.21 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
- Not recorded
- Active
- At night (nocturnal)src for Active
- Lifestyle
- Terrestrialsrc for Lifestyle
- Conservation status
- Data Deficient (IUCN)src for Conservation status
- Countries on record
- 1 countrysrc for Countries on record
Where does the menzies' 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 menzies' echymipera is listed for 1 country.
- Listed
- Not listed
The same countries as a list
Why a country list is not a range map
Listed by: ITIS (scope: global), through the Catalogue of Life.
What is the menzies' echymipera?
Menzies' echymipera (Echymipera echinista), or Menzies' spiny bandicoot or Fly River bandicoot, is a species of marsupial in the family Peramelidae. It is endemic to Papua New Guinea.
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Is the menzies' echymipera endangered?
The menzies' echymipera is listed as Data Deficient on the IUCN Red List: it has too little data for its risk to be assessed.
Category via Wikidata (CC0). Find the full assessment on the IUCN Red List. See all Data Deficient species. What the categories mean.
How is the menzies' echymipera classified?
- kingdomAnimalia
- phylumChordata
- classMammalia
- orderPeramelemorphia
- familyPeramelidae
- genusEchymipera
- SpeciesEchymipera echinista Menzies, 1990
Other names and names in other languages (16)
- Fly river bandicootEnglish
- Fly river bandicootEnglish
- Menzies echymiperaEnglish
- Menzies’ echymiperaEnglish
- Menzies’ spiny bandicootEnglish
- Menzies's spiny bandicootEnglish
- بندقوط نهر فلايArabic
- bandikutec štětinatýCzech
- Menzies-StachelnasenbeutlerGerman
- Bandicut Espinoso de MenziesSpanish
- länsipapuanpiikkipusseliFinnish
- Péramèle De La Riviére FlyFrench
- ウィビムトゲバンディクートJapanese
- torbokolec szczeciniastyPolish
- Bandicoot-de-armaduraPortuguese
- Остроиглый бандикутRussian
Relatives of the menzies' echymipera
Other species in the same genus Echymipera.
Common echymipera
Echymipera kalubu
Clara's echymipera
Echymipera clara
Long-nosed echymipera
Echymipera rufescens
David's echymipera
Echymipera davidi
CompareMenzies' echymipera vs Common echymiperaMenzies' echymipera vs Clara's echymiperaMenzies' echymipera vs Long-nosed echymiperaMenzies' echymipera vs David's echymipera
Common questions
Answered only where our data holds the answer.
How big is the menzies' echymipera?
An adult menzies' echymipera weighs 1 kg – 1.21 kg, according to values recorded on Wikidata.
Where does the menzies' echymipera live?
Catalogue of Life checklists list the menzies' echymipera for 1 country: Australia. Checklist coverage is uneven, so the true range may be wider.
Is the menzies' echymipera endangered?
The menzies' echymipera is listed as Data Deficient on the IUCN Red List, meaning it has too little data for its risk to be assessed.
What kind of animal is the menzies' echymipera?
The menzies' echymipera (Echymipera echinista) 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.
- An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles · CC0 1.0 · E096-269
Myhrvold, N.P., Baldridge, E., Chan, B., Sivam, D., Freeman, D.L. & Ernest, S.K.M. (2015) An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96: 3109. https://doi.org/10.1890/15-0846R.1. Data: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.3563457.v1 - Catalogue of Life eXtended Release · CC BY 4.0 · 2026-10-16 XR
Catalogue of Life (2026). Catalogue of Life eXtended Release, version 2026-10-16 XR. Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgzlf - EltonTraits 1.0: species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals · CC0 1.0 · 1.0
Wilman, H., Belmaker, J., Simpson, J., de la Rosa, C., Rivadeneira, M.M. & Jetz, W. (2014) EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95: 2027. https://doi.org/10.1890/13-1917.1. Data: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.3559887.v1 - Wikidata · CC0 1.0 · 2026-11-11
Wikidata contributors. Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org (data retrieved via the Wikidata Query Service). - Wikipedia (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 2026-11-11
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