Class Mammalia Linnaeus, 1758 - mammals Subclass Theria Parker & Haswell, 1897 Order Peramelemorphia Ameghino, 1889 Family Peramelidae Gray, 1825 - bandicoots Subfamily Echymiperinae McKenna & Bell, 1997 Genus Echymipera Lesson, 1842 - New Guinean spiny bandicoots Echymipera davidi Flannery, in Seebeck et al., eds., 1990