Bunker's woodrat

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Bunker's woodrat
Status iucn3.1 EX.svg
Extinct  (1931)  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification OOjs UI icon edit-ltr.svg
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Cricetidae
Subfamily: Neotominae
Genus: Neotoma
Species:
Subspecies:
N. b. bunkeri
Trinomial name
Neotoma bryanti bunkeri
Burt, 1932

Bunker's woodrat (Neotoma bryanti bunkeri) is an extinct subspecies of Bryant's woodrat 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, 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. (2018). "Neotoma bryanti ssp. bunkeri". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2018: e.T14577A124171652. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T14577A124171652.en . Retrieved 17 November 2021.
  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