bandicoot rat
bandicota latin

The short-tailed bandicoot rat is common and can reach high numbers under favorable conditions.

They are known as the bandicoot rats.

Such an example is the Bandicoot rat.

In Tabari's clan梩he extended family to which his father belonged梩he bandicoot rat represented death.

Packs of Lesser Bandicoot rats have been known to attack and devour infants left alone.

A bandicoot rat.

Like the better known rats in the genus Rattus, bandicoot rats are members of the family Muridae.

The Lesser Bandicoot rat, Bandicota bengalensis, is a rodent.

The short-tailed bandicoot rat (Nesokia indica) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.

The short-tailed bandicoot rat is generally brown on the upper parts and lighter on the underside, sometimes with a white patch on the throat.

Seven species are now extinct or near extinction from the marshes, including the Indian Crested Porcupine, the bandicoot rat and the marsh gray wolf.

The short-tailed bandicoot rat is a nocturnal rodent and spends most of its time in a burrow which comprises many tunnels and chambers.

The International Union for the Conservation of Nature says there are large numbers of Lesser Bandicoot rats found over a wide area.

Savile's Bandicoot Rat (Bandicota savilei) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.

Short-tailed Bandicoot Rat (Nesokia indica)

In the areas controlled by the KLF, aggressive measures were invariably taken against the bandicoot rat, an indigenous species of vermin destructive to poultry and grain.

In Sri Lanka, the bandicoot rat is known as uru-meeya in Sinhala Language, the meaning of which directly translates to "pig-rat".

The lesser bandicoot rat or Indian mole-rat (Bandicota bengalensis) is a giant rat of Southern Asia, not related to the true bandicoots.

Rats such as the bandicoot rat (Bandicota bengalensis) are murine rodents related to true rats, but are not members of the genus Rattus.

Janson withdrew a second bandicoot rat, an even larger one, and, as it writhed and squirmed in his gloved hands, pressed into its belly a tiny hypodermic filled with d-amphetamine.

There were also populations of several mammal species including the unique Erythronesokia bunnii (Bunn's Short-Tailed Bandicoot Rat) and the Smooth-coated Otter subspecies Lutra perspicillata maxwelli, which had only been described from specimens obtained in the Central Marshes.

The short-tailed bandicoot rat lives in river valleys, by lake sides, in irrigated lands and oases in Asia and North Africa, from Xinjiang (China) in the east to Egypt in the west, to Uzbekistan in the north and to Bangladesh in the south.

Bandicoot rats are an important food source among some peoples in Southeast Asia, and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization estimated rat meat makes up half the locally produced meat consumed in Ghana, where cane rats are farmed and hunted for their meat.

It is a rat, but is not in the genus Rattus, but in the genus Bandicota.

In a recent study revealed six species of mammals Indian flying-fox, painted bat, three-striped palm squirrel/dusky palm squirrel, house rat/black rat, bandicota, and Eurasian otter.

It occurs worldwide and commonly infects its type host, the brown rat (Rattus norvegicus), and related species like the black rat (Rattus rattus), Rattus pyctoris, Rattus nitidus, Rattus argentiventer, Rattus tanezumi, Rattus exulans, and Bandicota indica.