Nesoryzomys darwini Osgood, 1929:23
Darwin’s Galápagos mouse, Darwin's rice rat, Darwin’s nesoryzomys
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: 1930 (Fisher & Blomberg, 2012; Lee et al., 2017)
IUCN RedList status: Extinct
Distribution
Santa Cruz, Galápagos Islands, Ecuador
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
1 preserved specimen in the Vertebrate Collection at Charles Darwin Research Station collection:
VCCDRS 142690
For full details, see: http://www.darwinfoundation.org/datazone/collections/eng/furtherinfo/1/142690/
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Osgood, W. H. (1929). A new rodent from the Galapagos Islands. Field Museum of Natural History - Zoology 17: 21-24.
Other references:
Dowler, R. C., Carroll, D. S. and Edwards, C. W. (2000). Rediscovery of rodents (Genus Nesoryzomys) considered extinct in the Galápagos Islands. Oryx 34(2): 109-118.
Fisher, Diana O. and Blomberg, Simon P. (2012). Inferring Extinction of Mammals from Sighting Records, Threats, and Biological Traits. Conservation Biology 26(1): 57-67. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1523-1739.2011.01797.x
Fisher, Diana O. and Humphreys, Aelys M. (2024). Evidence for modern extinction in plants and animals. Biological Conservation 298: 110772. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2024.110772
Harris, D.B. (2006) Introduced black rats abd endemic Galapagos rice rats: competition, coexistence and conservation. A thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Linacre College, Oxford.
Harris, D.B., MacDonald, D.W. (2007) Population ecology of the endemic rodent Nesoryzomys swarthi in the tropical desert of the Galapagos Islands. Journal of Mammalogy 88 (1): 208-219.
Jiménez-Uzcátegui, G., Milstead, B., Márquez, C., Zabala, J., Buitrón, P., Llerena, A., et al. (2007). Galapagos vertebrates: endangered status and conservation actions. Galapagos Report 2006–2007. Charles Darwin Foundation, Puerto Ayora, p. 104–110.
Jiménez-Uzcátegui, Gustavo and Snell, Howard L. (2014). CDF Checklist of Galapagos Mammals - FCD Lista de especies de Mamíferos Galápagos. In: Bungartz, F., Herrera, H., Jaramillo, P., Tirado, N., Jiménez-Uzcátegui, G., Ruiz, D., Guézou, A. & Ziemmeck, F. (eds.). Charles Darwin Foundation Galapagos Species Checklist - Lista de Especies de Galápagos de la Fundación Charles Darwin. Charles Darwin Foundation / Fundación Charles Darwin, Puerto Ayora, Galapagos: http://www.darwinfoundation.org/datazone/checklists/vertebrates/mammalia/ Last updated: 24 Jan 2014
Lee, T. E., Fisher, D. O., Blomberg, S. P. and Wintle, B. A. (2017). Extinct or still out there? Disentangling influences on extinction and rediscovery helps to clarify the fate of species on the edge. Global Change Biology 23(2): 621-634. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.13421
Musser, G.G. and Carleton, M.D. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. In: D.E. Wilson and D.A. Reeder (eds), Mammal Species of the World: a geographic and taxonomic reference, pp. 894-1531. The John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA.
Patton, J. L., and M. S. Hafner. 1983. Biosystematics of the native rodents of the Galapagos Archipelago, Ecuador. Pp. 539-568, in Patterns of evolution in Galapagos organisms (R. I. Bowman, M. Benson, and A. E. Leviton, eds.). American Association for the Advancement of Science, Pacific Division, San Francisco, CA, 568 pp.
Snell, H.L., Tye, A., Causton, C.E. & Bensted-Smith, R. (1999) Estado y amenazas de la biodiversidad terretre de Galápagos. Visión para la biodiversidad de las islas Galápagos. Fundación Charles Darwin para las islas Galápagos y WWF. Puerto Ayora, Galápagos.
Steadman, David W., Stafford, Thomas W. Jnr., Donahue, Douglas J. and Jull, A. J. Timothy. (1991). Chronology of Holocene vertebrate extinction in the Galápagos Islands. Quaternary Research 36(1): 126-133. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0033-5894(91)90021-V
Tirira, D., Dowler, R., Boada, C. & Weksler, M. (2008). Nesoryzomys darwini. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.1. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 12 September 2011.
Tirira, D.G. & Weksler, M. 2019. Nesoryzomys darwini. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2019: e.T14706A22390382. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-3.RLTS.T14706A22390382.en. Accessed on 18 June 2022.
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]
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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