The red-bellied dasyure or red-bellied marsupial shrew (''Phascolosorex doriae'') 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 ...
endemic
Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsew ...
to
West Papua. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests.
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Dasyuromorphs
Mammals of Western New Guinea
Mammals described in 1886
Taxa named by Oldfield Thomas
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
Marsupials of New Guinea
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