title: Narrow-striped marsupial shrew
text: # Narrow-striped marsupial shrew
  
  The narrow-striped dasyure or narrow-striped marsupial shrew (Phascolosorex dorsalis) is a species of marsupial in the family Dasyuridae found in West Papua and Papua New Guinea. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests.
  
  ## Names
  
  It is known as aln in the Kalam language of Papua New Guinea.
  
  