# Common echymipera

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{{Short description|Species of marsupial}}
{{Speciesbox
| name = Common echymipera<ref name=msw3>{{MSW3 Groves|pages=41}}</ref>
| status = LC
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| status_ref = <ref name="iucn status 12 November 2021">{{cite iucn |author=Leary, T. |author2=Wright, D. |author3=Hamilton, S. |author4=Singadan, R. |author5=Menzies, J. |author6=Bonaccorso, F. |author7=Helgen, K. |author8=Seri, L. |author9=Aplin, K. |author10=Dickman, C. |author11=Salas, L. |date=2016 |title=''Echymipera kalubu'' |volume=2016 |article-number=e.T7018A21966845 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T7018A21966845.en |access-date=12 November 2021}}</ref>
| genus = Echymipera
| species = kalubu
| authority = ([J. Fischer](/source/Johann_Baptist_Fischer), 1829)
| range_map = Common Spiny Bandicoot area.png
| range_map_caption = Common echymipera range
}}

The '''common echymipera''' ('''''Echymipera kalubu'''''), or '''common spiny bandicoot''', is a [bandicoot](/source/bandicoot). It is long-snouted even by bandicoot standards. The upper parts are a coarse reddish-brown, flecked with spiny buff and black hairs. The tail is short and almost hairless. Length varies between {{cvt|30|and|40|cm}}, with the tail accounting for an additional {{cvt|8|to|10|cm}}; the weight is from {{cvt|0.6|to|2|kg}}.

==Names==
The name '''kalubu''', from which the scientific name is derived, is from the [Ma'ya language](/source/Ma'ya_language) of the [Raja Ampat Islands](/source/Raja_Ampat_Islands).<ref name="Schapper">{{Cite journal |last=Schapper |first=Antoinette |year=2011 |title=Phalanger Facts: Notes on Blust's Marsupial Reconstructions |journal=Oceanic Linguistics |volume=50 |issue=1 |pages=258–272 |doi=10.1353/ol.2011.0004|s2cid=145482148 }}</ref>

==Distribution==
The common echymipera is native to [New Guinea](/source/New_Guinea). Its presence in the [Admiralty Islands](/source/Admiralty_Islands) is due to human introduction several thousand years ago, but not before 13,000 B.P.<ref name="Schapper"/> However, unlike [Phalangeridae](/source/Phalangeridae) species ([cuscus](/source/cuscus)), which have historically been widely introduced and distributed by humans, the [Peramelidae](/source/Peramelidae) ([bandicoot](/source/bandicoot)s) have generally not been spread as much via human introductions.<ref name="Schapper"/>

It is hunted for human consumption in New Guinea.<ref>Margaretha Pangau-Adam & Richard Noske & Michael Muehlenberg. Wildmeat or Bushmeat? Subsistence Hunting and Commercial Harvesting in Papua (West New Guinea), Indonesia. ''Hum Ecol'' (2012) 40:611–621.{{doi|10.1007/s10745-012-9492-5}}</ref> The Common echymipera is a host of the [Acanthocephala](/source/Acanthocephala)n intestinal parasite ''[Australiformis semoni](/source/Australiformis_semoni)''.<ref name="Schmidt1989">{{Cite journal |doi = 10.2307/3282769|pmid = 2926590|jstor = 3282769|title = Australiformis semoni (Linstow, 1898) n. Gen., n. Comb. (Acanthocephala: Moniliformidae) from Marsupials of Australia and New Guinea|journal = The Journal of Parasitology|volume = 75|issue = 2|pages = 215–7|year = 1989|last1 = Schmidt|first1 = Gerald D.|last2 = Edmonds|first2 = Stanley J.}}</ref>

== References ==
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Category:Peramelemorphs
Category:Marsupials of New Guinea
Category:Mammals of Papua New Guinea
Category:Mammals of Western New Guinea
Category:Least concern biota of Oceania
Category:Mammals described in 1829
Category:Taxa named by Johann Baptist Fischer

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