The narrow-striped dasyure or narrow-striped marsupial shrew (''Phascolosorex dorsalis'') 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 found in West Papua 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 subtropical or tropical dry forests.

Names

It is known as aln in the Kalam language of

.Pawley, Andrew and Ralph Bulmer. 2011. ''A Dictionary of Kalam with Ethnographic Notes''. Canberra. Pacific Linguistics.

References

Dasyuromorphs Mammals of Papua New Guinea Mammals of Western New Guinea Mammals described in 1876 Taxa named by Wilhelm Peters Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Marsupials of New Guinea Taxa named by Giacomo Doria {{marsupial-stub