Chaetodipus rudinoris fornicatus Burt, 1932
Bailey's pocket mouse, Montserrat Island pocket mouse
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Perognathus baileyi fornicatus Burt, 1932; Chaetodipus baileyi fornicatus Burt, 1932
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: 21 May 1975
IUCN RedList status: Extinct
Predation by feral cats probably caused Bailey's pocket mouse to become extinct (Alvarez-Castaneda & Cortes-Calva, 2002).
Distribution
Montserrat Island, Gulf of California, Mexico
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
The last two specimens collected are in the collection of the Instituto de Biología of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Alvarez-Castaneda and Cortes-Calva, 2002).
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Burt, William Henry. (1932). Description of heretofore unknown mammals from islands in the Gulf of California, México. Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History 7(16): 161-182.
Other references:
Álvarez-Castañeda, Sergio Ticul and Cortes-Calva, Patricia. (2002). Extirpation of bailey's pocket mouse, Chaetodipus baileyi fornicatus (Heteromyidae: Mammalia), from Isla Montserrat, Baja California Sur, Mexico. Western American Naturalist 62: 496-497.
Álvarez-Castañeda, Sergio Ticul and Ortega-Rubio, Alfredo. (2003). Current status of rodents on islands in the Gulf of California. Biological Conservation 109(2): 157-163. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0006-3207(02)00121-0
Linzey, A.V., Timm, R., Álvarez-Castañeda, S.T., Castro-Arellano, I. & Lacher, T. (2008). Chaetodipus rudinoris. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.1. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 13 September 2011.
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