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

marsupial Marsupials are a diverse group of mammals belonging to the infraclass Marsupialia. They are natively found in Australasia, Wallacea, and the Americas. One of marsupials' unique features is their reproductive strategy: the young are born in a r ...

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, 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 ...

. 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 Taxa named by George Henry Hamilton Tate Taxa named by Richard Archbold {{marsupial-stub