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| name = Bunker's woodrat |
| name = Bunker's woodrat |
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| status = EX |
| status = EX |
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| status_system = IUCN |
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| extinct = 1931 |
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| genus = Neotoma |
| genus = Neotoma |
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| species = |
| species = bryanti |
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| subspecies = bunkeri |
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| authority = Burt, 1932 |
| authority = Burt, 1932 |
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'''Bunker's woodrat''' (''Neotoma bunkeri'') is an extinct |
'''Bunker's woodrat''' (''Neotoma bryanti bunkeri'') is an extinct subspecies of [[Bryant's woodrat]] in the family [[Cricetidae]]. Only five specimens are known; these were collected in 1932 by W.H. Burt and are housed at a museum at UCLA. ''Neotoma bunkeri'' was only described from [[Coronados Islands]], [[Baja California]], [[Mexico]]. It probably died out as a result of depletion of food resources and predation by [[feral cats]].<ref>SMITH, F. A., B. T. BESTELMEYER, J. BIARDI, AND M. STRONG. 1993. Anthropogenic extinction of the endemic woodrat, Neotoma bunkeri Burt. Biodiversity Letters 1:149-155</ref> |
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==References==<!-- BiodiversLett1:149. BiolConserv109:157. --> |
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Revision as of 04:09, 11 March 2021
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Cricetidae |
| Subfamily: | Neotominae |
| Genus: | Neotoma |
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| Subspecies: | †N. b. bunkeri
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| †Neotoma bryanti bunkeri Burt, 1932
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Bunker's woodrat (Neotoma bryanti bunkeri) is an extinct subspecies of Bryant's woodrat in the family Cricetidae. Only five specimens are known; these were collected in 1932 by W.H. Burt and are housed at a museum at UCLA. Neotoma bunkeri was only described from Coronados Islands, Baja California, Mexico. It probably died out as a result of depletion of food resources and predation by feral cats.[1]
References
- ^ SMITH, F. A., B. T. BESTELMEYER, J. BIARDI, AND M. STRONG. 1993. Anthropogenic extinction of the endemic woodrat, Neotoma bunkeri Burt. Biodiversity Letters 1:149-155
- Musser, G. G. and M. D. Carleton. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. pp. 894–1531 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
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