Animalz

Myoictis

  • Müller's Three-striped Dasyure Myoictis melas
    Müller's Three-striped Dasyure
    Photo: Fábio Olmos · CC BY 4.0

    Müller's three-striped dasyure is a dasyurid marsupial from New Guinea's forests. Specimens assigned to the species vary in color, from nearly black to reddish brown.

  • Woolley's Three-striped Dasyure Myoictis leucura

    Myoictis leucura is a marsupial of New Guinea. A 2005 museum paper describes its three dark dorsal lines and white tail tip as diagnostic and maps specimen records in the southern Central Cordillera of Papua New Guinea.

  • Wallace's Dasyure Myoictis wallacii

    This dasyure has rusty-brown fur mixed with black hairs and a black tail tip.

  • Tate's Three-striped Dasyure Myoictis wavicus

    This marsupial is recorded around Wau in eastern New Guinea. It has gray-brown fur and black dorsal stripes, with paler hairs between the stripes.

  • Müller's Three-striped Dasyure Myoictis melas
    Müller's Three-striped Dasyure
    Photo: Fábio Olmos · CC BY 4.0

    Müller's three-striped dasyure is a dasyurid marsupial from New Guinea's forests. Specimens assigned to the species vary in color, from nearly black to reddish brown.