Bunker's Woodrat

Bunker's Woodrat
Conservation status
Extinct (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Cricetidae
Genus:	Neotoma
Species:	N. bunkeri
Binomial name
Neotoma bunkeri Burt, 1932

Bunker's Woodrat (Neotoma bunkeri) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. Only 5 specimens are known to science; 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 Sur, Mexico. It probably died out as a result of depletion of food resources and predation by feral cats.^[2]

References

1. ^ Álvarez-Castañeda, S.T., Castro-Arellano, I. & Lacher, T. (2008). Neotoma bunkeri. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 6 January 2009.
2. ^ 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.