Noronhomys vespuccii Carelton & Olson, 1999:10
Vespucci’s rodent, Vespucci's rat
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: late Quaternary (1503?)
IUCN RedList status: Extinct
Distribution
Fernando de Noronha, Brazil
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Carleton, Michael D., and, Olson, Storrs L. (1999). Amerigo Vespucci and the Rat of Fernando de Noronha: A new genus and species of Rodentia (Muridae: Sigmodontinae) from a volcanic island off Brazil's continental shelf. American Museum Novitates, No. 3256 (59 pp.).
Other references:
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.
Olson, Storrs L. (1981). Natural history of vertebrates on the Brazilian islands of the mid South Atlantic. Natl. Geogr. Soc. Res. Rep. 13: 481-492.
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]
Weksler, M. and Costa, L. (2008). Noronhomys vespuccii. In: IUCN 2010. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2010.4. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 05 May 2011.
Weksler, M. & Costa , L.M. 2019. Noronhomys vespuccii. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2019: e.T136692A22333193. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-1.RLTS.T136692A22333193.en. Accessed on 19 June 2022.
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