The Tate's three-striped dasyure (''Myoictis wavicus'') is a member of the order

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 ...

. This

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 ...

carnivore lives in

New Guinea New Guinea (; Hiri Motu: ''Niu Gini''; , fossilized , also known as Papua or historically ) is the List of islands by area, world's second-largest island, with an area of . Located in Melanesia in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, the island is ...

. It inhabits primary

montane forest Montane ecosystems are found on the slopes of mountains. The alpine climate in these regions strongly affects the ecosystem because temperatures lapse rate, fall as elevation increases, causing the ecosystem to stratify. This stratification is ...

. Like its congeners, it is thought to be diurnal and largely terrestrial. ''Myoictis wavicus'' was previously considered to be a subspecies of ''M. melas''. It was recently elevated to full species status based on morphological and genetic examinations. It is most closely related to ''M. leucura''.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q724336 Dasyuromorphs Mammals described in 1947 Taxa named by George Henry Hamilton Tate Marsupials of New Guinea Endemic fauna of New Guinea Mammals of Papua New Guinea