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

  1. 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.
  2. 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
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