The Habbema dasyure (''Murexia habbema'') is a species of

marsupial Marsupials are any members of the mammalian infraclass Marsupialia. All extant marsupials are endemic to Australasia, Wallacea and the Americas. A distinctive characteristic common to most of these species is that the young are carried in a po ...

in the family

Dasyuridae The Dasyuridae are a family of marsupials native to Australia and New Guinea, including 71 extant species divided into 17 genera. Many are small and mouse-like or shrew-like, giving some of them the name marsupial mice or marsupial shrews, but th ...

found in West Papua,

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, and

Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea (abbreviated PNG; , ; tpi, Papua Niugini; ho, Papua Niu Gini), officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea ( tpi, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niugini; ho, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niu Gini), is a country i ...

. Its natural habitat is rocky areas. Some authorities place it in the separate genus ''Micromurexia''.

References

Dasyuromorphs Mammals of Papua New Guinea Mammals of Western New Guinea Mammals described in 1941 Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Marsupials of New Guinea {{marsupial-stub