A Bandicoot belongs to which order or class of animals?
Bandicoot Bandicoot Bandicoot are a group of about 20 species of small to large-sized, terrestrial marsupial omnivore in the order Peramelemorphia. They are endemic to the Australia–New Guinea region. The bandicoot is a member of the order Peramelemorphia, and the word "bandicoot" is often used informally to refer to any peramelemorph, such as the bilby. The term originally referred to the unrelated Indian bandicoot rat from Telugu language word Pandikokku (పందికొక్కు). Most marsupials, including bandicoots, have a bifurcated penis. The embryos of bandicoots have a chorioallantoic placenta that connects them to the uterine wall, in addition to the choriovitelline placenta that
Bandicoot-class minesweeper Bandicoot-class minesweeper The "Bandicoot" class was a ship class of two minesweeper tugboats operated by the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). MSA "Bandicoot" (Y 298) and MSA "Wallaroo" (Y 299) were built in 1982 for Maritime (PTE) Ltd. as the tugboats "Grenville VII" and "Grenville V". In 1990, the RAN purchased the vessels for conversion into auxiliary minesweepers under the Craft of Opportunity Program (COOP). The vessels could be equipped with a sidescan sonar and various towed minesweeping arrays, and also functioned as berthing tugs. Both vessels were placed in reserve in 2010, but were deployed on several occasions since to