Neotoma bryanti bunkeri Burt, 1932:181
Bunkers woodrat, Bunker's woodrat, Coronados Island woodrat
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct or invalid
Last record: 1931 or 1932
IUCN RedList status: Extinct
Expeditions in March 1989 and June 1990 failed to confirm the continued existence of this species, and it is probably extinct (Smith et. al. 1993). However, it is considered a synonym of N. bryanti bryanti by (Patton et al. 2007) and as a consequence has been removed from the IUCN's RedList.
Distribution
Coronados Islands, Baja California Sur, Mexico
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Only known from 6 specimens (Smith et al., 1993).
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: 161-182.
Other references:
Álvarez-Castañeda, S. T. (1997). Diversidad y conservación de peque- ños mamíferos terrestre de B. C. S. PhD thesis, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
Álvarez-Castañeda, S.T., Castro-Arellano, I. & Lacher, T. (2008). Neotoma bunkeri. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.1. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 08 October 2011.
Álvarez-Castañeda, S.T., Castro-Arellano, I. & Lacher, T. 2018. Neotoma bryanti ssp. bunkeri. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2018: e.T14577A124171652. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T14577A124171652.en. Downloaded on 02 December 2018.
Álvarez-Castañeda, S.T., Cortés-Calva, P. (1999). Familia Muridae. In: Álvarez-~astañeda, S.T., Patton, J. (Eds.), Mamiferos del Noroeste Mexicano. Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas del Noroeste, SC, La Paz, B.C.S., Mexico, pp. 445-566.
Alvarez-Castañeda, S. T. and Ortega-Rubio, A. (2003). Current status of rodents on islands in the Gulf of California. Biological Conservation 109: 157-163.
Álvarez-Castañeda, Sergio Ticul and Ortega-Rubio, Alfredo. (2003). Current status of rodents on islands in the Gulf of California. Biological Conservation 100: 157-163.
Burt, W. H., and F. S. Barkalow, Jr. (1942). A comparative study of the bacula of woodrats (Subfamily Neotominae). Journal of Mammalogy 23: 287-297.
Donlan, C. J. (2008). On the ecology of invasive species, extinction, ecological history, and biodiversity conservation. Thesis Cornell University.
Freudenthal, M. and Martín-Suárez, E. (2013). Estimating body mass of fossil rodents. Scripta Geologica 145: 1-130. [0.145-0.375 kg estimate]
Mascarello, J. T. 1978. Chromosomal, biochemical, mensural, penile, and cranial variation in desert woodrats (Neotoma lepida). Journal of Mammalogy 59: 477-495.
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, James L., Huckaby, D. G. and Álvarez-Castañeda, S. T. (2007). The Evolutionary History and a Systematic Revision of Woodrats of the Neotoma lepida Group. University of California publications in zoology 135: xx + 450 pp.
Smith, F. A. (1992). Evolution of body size among woodrats from Baja California, Mexico. Functional Ecology 6: 265-273.
Smith, Felisa A., Bestelmeyer, Brandon T., Biardi, James and Strong, Michael. (1993). Anthropogenic extinction of the endemic woodrat, Neotoma bunkeri Burt. Biodiversity Letters 1(5): 149-155.
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