Class Mammalia Linnaeus, 1758 - mammals Subclass Theria Parker & Haswell, 1897 Order Peramelemorphia Ameghino, 1889 Family Peramelidae Gray, 1825 - bandicoots Subfamily Peroryctinae Groves & Flannery, 1990 Genus Peroryctes Thomas, 1906 - New Guinean bandicoots Peroryctes broadbenti (Ramsay, 1879) - giant bandicoot