Short-furred Dasyure
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| Short-furred Dasyure[1] | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Dasyuromorphia |
| Family: | Dasyuridae |
| Subfamily: | Dasyurinae |
| Tribe: | Phascogalini |
| Genus: | Murexia Tate & Archbold, 1937 |
| Species: | M. longicaudata |
| Binomial name | |
| Murexia longicaudata (Schlegel, 1866) |
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| Short-furred Dasyure range (blue — native, red — introduced) |
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The Short-furred Dasyure (Murexia longicaudata), also known as the Short-haired Marsupial Mouse, is a member of the order Dasyuromorphia. It is the only species in the Murexia genus. It lives in Papua, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.
[edit] References
- ^ Groves, Colin P. (16 November 2005). "Order Dasyuromorphia (pp. 23-37)". In Wilson, Don E., and Reeder, DeeAnn M., eds. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2 vols. (2142 pp.). p. 31. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=10800069.
- ^ Woolley, P., Leary, T., Seri, L., Wright, D., Hamilton, S., Helgen, K., Singadan, R., Menzies, J., Allison, A., James, R., Dickman, C., Lunde, D. & Aplin, K. (2008). Murexia longicaudata. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 28 December 2008. Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern
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