The red-bellied dasyure or red-bellied marsupial shrew (''Phascolosorex doriae'') 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 ...

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found only 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 foun ...

to West Papua. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests.

References

Dasyuromorphs Mammals of Western New Guinea Mammals described in 1886 Taxa named by Oldfield Thomas Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Marsupials of New Guinea Endemic fauna of Indonesia {{marsupial-stub