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Mesocricetus rathgeberi Pieper, 1984

Armathia hamster

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

 

 

Conservation Status

Extinct

Last record: Subfossil

 

Distribution

Armathia Island, Greece

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

 

 

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.

Pieper H (1984) A new species of Mesocricetus (Mammalia: Cricetidae) from the Greek island Armathia. Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde, Serie B (Geologie und Paläontologie) 107, 1–9.

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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