Bunker's woodrat
| Bunker's woodrat | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Cricetidae |
| Genus: | Neotoma |
| Species: | N. bunkeri |
| Binomial name | |
| Neotoma bunkeri Burt, 1932 | |
Bunker's woodrat (Neotoma bunkeri) is an extinct species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. Only five specimens are known; these were collected in 1932 by W.H. Burt and are housed at a museum at UCLA. Neotoma bunkeri was only described from Coronados Islands, Baja California Sur, Mexico. It probably died out as a result of depletion of food resources and predation by feral cats.[2]
References
- ↑ Álvarez-Castañeda, S.T., Castro-Arellano, I. & Lacher, T. (2008). Neotoma bunkeri. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 6 January 2009.
- ↑ SMITH, F. A., B. T. BESTELMEYER, J. BIARDI, AND M. STRONG. 1993. Anthropogenic extinction of the endemic woodrat, Neotoma bunkeri Burt. Biodiversity Letters 1:149-155
- Musser, G. G. and M. D. Carleton. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. pp. 894–1531 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
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