Common echymipera
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The common echymipera (Echymipera kalubu), or common spiny bandicoot, is a 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 Template:Cvt, with the tail accounting for an additional Template:Cvt; the weight is from Template:Cvt.
Names
The name kalubu, from which the scientific name is derived, is from the Ma'ya language of the Raja Ampat Islands.<ref name="Schapper">Template:Cite journal</ref>
Distribution
The common echymipera is native to New Guinea. Its presence in the Admiralty Islands is due to human introduction several thousand years ago, but not before 13,000 B.P.<ref name="Schapper"/> However, unlike Phalangeridae species (cuscus), which have historically been widely introduced and distributed by humans, the Peramelidae (bandicoots) 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.{{#invoke:CS1 identifiers|main|_template=doi}}</ref> The Common echymipera is a host of the Acanthocephalan intestinal parasite Australiformis semoni.<ref name="Schmidt1989">Template:Cite journal</ref>