Narrow-striped marsupial shrew
Appearance
Narrow-striped marsupial shrew[1] | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
Order: | Dasyuromorphia |
Family: | Dasyuridae |
Genus: | Phascolosorex |
Species: | P. dorsalis
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Binomial name | |
Phascolosorex dorsalis | |
Narrow-striped marsupial shrew range |
The narrow-striped dasyure or narrow-striped marsupial shrew (Phascolosorex dorsalis) is a species of marsupial in the family Dasyuridae found in West Papua and Papua New Guinea. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests.[2]
Names
[edit]It is known as aln in the Kalam language of Papua New Guinea.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Groves, C. P. (2005). Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 27. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. OCLC 62265494.
- ^ a b Woolley, P.; Leary, T.; Seri, L.; Flannery, T.; Wright, D.; Hamilton, S.; Helgen, K.; Singadan, R.; Menzies, J.; Allison, A.; James, R.; Aplin, K.; Dickman, C.; Lunde, D.; Bonaccorso, F. (2016). "Phascolosorex dorsalis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T16894A21943541. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T16894A21943541.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
- ^ Pawley, Andrew and Ralph Bulmer. 2011. A Dictionary of Kalam with Ethnographic Notes. Canberra. Pacific Linguistics.