Marsupial shrew

Genus of marsupials

Marsupial shrews
Phascolosorex dorsalis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Infraclass: Marsupialia
Order: Dasyuromorphia
Family: Dasyuridae
Subfamily: Dasyurinae
Tribe: Dasyurini
Genus: Phascolosorex
Matschie, 1916
Type species
Phascogale dorsalis
J. E. Gray, 1842
Species

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The two species in the genus Phascolosorex, also known as marsupial shrews, are members of the order Dasyuromorphia.

The two species of these dasyurids are:[1]

  • Red-bellied marsupial shrew, Phascolosorex doriae (Indonesia)
  • Narrow-striped marsupial shrew, Phascolosorex dorsalis (Indonesia and Papua New Guinea)

References

  1. ^ Groves, C. P. (2005). "Genus Phascolosorex". In Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 26. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. OCLC 62265494.
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Extant Dasyuromorphia species
Family Dasyuridae, subfamily Dasyurinae
Dasyurini
Dasycercus
(Mulgaras)
  • Southern mulgara (D. archeri)
  • Brush-tailed mulgara (D. blythi)
  • Crest-tailed mulgara (D. cristicauda)
  • Ampurta (D. hilleri)
  • Little mulgara (D. marlowi)
  • Northern mulgara (D. woolleyae
Dasykaluta
  • Little red kaluta (D. rosamondae)
Dasyuroides
  • Kowari (D. byrnei)
Dasyurus
(Quolls)
  • New Guinean quoll (D. albopunctatus)
  • Western quoll (D. geoffroii)
  • Northern quoll (D. hallucatus)
  • Tiger quoll (D. maculatus)
  • Bronze quoll (D. spartacus)
  • Eastern quoll (D. viverrinus)
Myoictis
  • Woolley's three-striped dasyure (M. leucura)
  • Three-striped dasyure (M. melas)
  • Wallace's dasyure (M. wallacii)
  • Tate's three-striped dasyure (M. wavicus)
Neophascogale
  • Speckled dasyure (N. lorentzi)
Parantechinus
  • Dibbler (P. apicalis)
Phascolosorex
(Marsupial shrews)
  • Red-bellied marsupial shrew (P. doriae)
  • Narrow-striped marsupial shrew (P. dorsalis)
Pseudantechinus
(False antechinuses)
  • Sandstone false antechinus (P. bilarni)
  • Fat-tailed false antechinus (P. macdonnellensis)
  • Alexandria false antechinus (P. mimulus)
  • Ningbing false antechinus (P. ningbing)
  • Rory Cooper's false antechinus (P. roryi)
  • Woolley's false antechinus (P. woolleyae)
Sarcophilus
  • Tasmanian devil (S. harrisii)
Phascogalini
Antechinus
  • Tropical antechinus (A. adustus)
  • Agile antechinus (A. agilis)
  • Fawn antechinus (A. bellus)
  • Yellow-footed antechinus (A. flavipes)
  • Atherton antechinus (A. godmani)
  • Cinnamon antechinus (A. leo)
  • Swamp antechinus (A. minimus)
  • Brown antechinus (A. stuartii)
  • Subtropical antechinus (A. subtropicus)
  • Dusky antechinus (A. swainsonii)
Murexia
  • Habbema dasyure (M. habbema)
  • Short-furred dasyure (M. longicaudata)
  • Black-tailed dasyure (M. melanurus)
  • Long-nosed dasyure (M. naso)
  • Broad-striped dasyure (M. rothschildi)
Phascogale
  • Red-tailed phascogale (P. calura)
  • Brush-tailed phascogale (P. tapoatafa)
Family Dasyuridae, subfamily Sminthopsinae
Sminthopsini
Antechinomys
  • Kultarr (A. laniger)
Ningaui
  • Wongai ningaui (N. ridei)
  • Pilbara ningaui (N. timealeyi)
  • Southern ningaui (N. yvonnae)
Sminthopsis
(Dunnarts)
  • S. crassicaudata species-group: Fat-tailed dunnart (S. crassicaudata)
  • S. macroura species-group: Kakadu dunnart (S. bindi)
  • Carpentarian dunnart (S. butleri)
  • Julia Creek dunnart (S. douglasi)
  • Stripe-faced dunnart (S. macroura)
  • Red-cheeked dunnart (S. virginiae)
  • S. granulipes species-group: White-tailed dunnart (S. granulipes)
  • S. griseoventer species-group: Kangaroo Island dunnart (S. aitkeni)
  • Boullanger Island dunnart (S. boullangerensis)
  • Grey-bellied dunnart (S. griseoventer)
  • S. longicaudata species-group: Long-tailed dunnart (S. longicaudata)
  • S. murina species-group: Chestnut dunnart (S. archeri)
  • Little long-tailed dunnart (S. dolichura)
  • Sooty dunnart (S. fulginosus)
  • Gilbert's dunnart (S. gilberti)
  • White-footed dunnart (S. leucopus)
  • Slender-tailed dunnart (S. murina)
  • S. psammophila species-group: Hairy-footed dunnart (S. hirtipes)
  • Ooldea dunnart (S. ooldea)
  • Sandhill dunnart (S. psammophila)
  • Lesser hairy-footed dunnart (S. youngsoni)
Planigalini
Planigale
  • Paucident planigale (P. gilesi)
  • Long-tailed planigale (P. ingrami)
  • Common planigale (P. maculata)
  • New Guinean planigale (P. novaeguineae)
  • Narrow-nosed planigale (P. tenuirostris)
  • Orange-headed Pilbara planigale (P. kendricki)
  • Cracking-clay Pilbara planigale (P. tealei)
Myrmecobius
  • Numbat (M. fasciatus)
Taxon identifiers
Phascolosorex


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