The two species in the
genus
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''Phascolosorex'', also known as marsupial shrews, are members of the
order
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* A socio-political or established or existing order, e.g. World order, Ancien Regime, Pax Britannica
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Dasyuromorphia
Dasyuromorphia (, meaning "hairy tail" in Greek) is an order comprising most of the Australian carnivorous marsupials, including quolls, dunnarts, the numbat, the Tasmanian devil, and the extinct thylacine. In Australia, the exceptions include ...
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The two species of these
dasyurid
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 ...
s are:
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Red-bellied marsupial shrew, ''Phascolosorex doriae'' (
Indonesia
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Narrow-striped marsupial shrew
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.
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, ''Phascolosorex dorsalis'' (Indonesia and
Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea, officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is an island country in Oceania that comprises the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean n ...
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References
Dasyuromorphs
Taxa named by Paul Matschie
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