Narrow-striped marsupial shrew

Narrow-striped marsupial shrew[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Infraclass: Marsupialia
Order: Dasyuromorphia
Family: Dasyuridae
Genus: Phascolosorex
Species:
P. dorsalis
Binomial name
Phascolosorex dorsalis
(Peters & Doria, 1876)
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

It is known as aln in the Kalam language of Papua New Guinea.[3]

References

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ Pawley, Andrew and Ralph Bulmer. 2011. A Dictionary of Kalam with Ethnographic Notes. Canberra. Pacific Linguistics.


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