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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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