Meriones malatestai Kotsakis & Burgio (year?)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Nomen nudum?
Conservation Status
Invalid (nomen nudum)?
Last record: Late Pleistocene
Distribution
Lampedusa, Pelagie Islands, Italy
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Kotsakis, T. and Burgio, E. (submitted). Meriones malatestai n. sp., (Gerbillidae, Rodentia), Late Pleistocene endemic species of Lampedusa island (Italy, Central Mediterranean). J. Vertebr. Paleont., Lawrence.
Other references:
Amori, Giovanni and Castiglia, Riccardo. (2018). Mammal endemism in Italy: a review. Biogeographia 33: 19-31.
Turvey, Samuel T. (2009). Holocene mammal extinctions, pp. 41-61. In: Turvey, Samuel T. (ed.). Holocene Extinctions. Oxford, UK & New York, USA: Oxford University Press. xii + 352 pp.
Turvey, Samuel T. and Fritz, Susanne A. (2011). The ghosts of mammals past: biological and geographical patterns of global mammalian extinction across the Holocene. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 366(1577): 2564-2576. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2011.0020 [Supplementary Information]