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 kalubu (J. Fischer, 1829) - spiny bandicoot
               1 [Echymipera kalubu kalubu]ᵀ (J. Fischer, 1829)
               2 Echymipera kalubu cockerelli (Ramsay, 1877)
               3 Echymipera kalubu oriomo Tate & Archbold, 1936
               4 Echymipera kalubu philipi Troughton, 1954