Raffray's bandicoot

Weight

790.3 g – 838.5 gsrc for Weight

Length

Not recorded

Lifespan

3.24 yearssrc for Lifespan

Diet

Invertivoresrc for Diet

Longest recorded lifespan

3.3 years

Main food

Not recorded

Habitat

Not recorded

Gestation

15 dayssrc for Gestation

Young per litter or clutch

1.64src for Young per litter or clutch

Age at maturity

2.96 months – 4.93 monthssrc for Age at maturity

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

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The raffray's bandicoot is listed for 1 country.

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.

The raffray's bandicoot 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.

1. kingdomAnimalia
2. phylumChordata
3. classMammalia
4. orderPeramelemorphia
5. familyPeramelidae
6. genusPeroryctes
7. SpeciesPeroryctes raffrayana (A. Milne-Edwards, 1878)

Synonyms Perameles raffrayana

Catalogue of LifeWikipediaiNaturalistWikidataIUCN Red List

CompareRaffray's bandicoot vs Giant bandicootRaffray's bandicoot vs Peroryctes trigonodonRaffray's bandicoot vs Peroryctes aruensisRaffray's bandicoot vs Peroryctes kwiyawagiensis

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• Wikimedia Commons · per file (CC0 / public domain / CC BY green, CC BY-SA amber, anything else not displayed) · 2026-11-11
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@misc{raffrays_bandicoot_2026,
  title = {Raffray's bandicoot (Peroryctes raffrayana)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/raffrays-bandicoot},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-11}
}