Mus minotaurus Bate, 1942:45
Bate's large mouse
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: Late Pleistocene (Holocene?)
Distribution
Crete, Greece
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Bate, Dorothy M. A. (1942). New Pleistocene Murinae from Crete. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 11, 9: 41-49.
Other references:
Alcover, Josep Antoni et al. (1998). Mammal Species of the World: Additional Data on Insular Mammals. American Museum Novitates 3248, 29 pp., 1 table.
De Vos, J. (1984). The endemic Pleistocene deer of Crete. Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, Afdeling Natuurkunde, Eerste reeks 31: 1-100.
Dermitzakis, M. D. and de Vos, J. (1987). Faunal succession and the evolution of mammals in Crete during the Pleistocene. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie. Abhandlungen, 173(3): 377-408.
Freudenthal, M. and Martín-Suárez, E. (2013). Estimating body mass of fossil rodents. Scripta Geologica 145: 1-130.
KUSS, S.E., 1973, Die Pleistozanen Saugetierfaunen der Ostmediterranen Inseln, Ber. Naturf. Ges. Freiburg, v. 63(1+2), p. 49-71.
Kuss, S. E. and Misonne, X. (1968). Pleistozäne Muriden del Insel Kreta. Neueus Jahrbücher für Geologie und Palaontologie Abhandlungen 132(1): 55-69.
Mayhew, D. F. (1977). The endemic Pleistocene murids of Crete. I. Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, Amsterdam, ser. B, 80(3):182-214.
Mayhew, D. F. (1996). The extinct Murids of Crete, pp. 167-171. In: Reese, D. S. (ed.). Pleistocene and Holocene Fauna of Crete and Its First Settlers. Monograph in World Archeology, Vol. 28. Madison, WI: Prehistory Press.
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]
Weesie, P. D. M. (1982). A Pleistocene endemic island form within the genus Athene: Athene cretensis n. sp. (Aves, Strigiformes) from Crete. Proc. Kon. Neder. Akad. Weten., Series B, 85(3): 323-336.
Wilson, D.E. & Reeder, D.M. 2005 Mammal species of the world: a taxonomic and geographic reference. Third edition. Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University Press.
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