Darwin's Rice Rat

Darwin's Rice Rat

Taxobox
name = Darwin's Rice Rat
status = EX
status_system = iucn2.3
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Rodentia
familia = Cricetidae
subfamilia = Sigmodontinae
genus = "Nesoryzomys"
species = †"N. darwini"
binomial = †"Nesoryzomys darwini"

The Darwin's Rice Rat or Darwin's Galapagos Mouse ("Nesoryzomys darwini") lived on Indefatigable Island in the Galapagos Islands. It was probably nocturnal and inhabited burrows or rock crevices under bushes. Only four specimens exist, collected by Frank Wonder between 12 and 16 January 1929. This extinction may have been caused by competition and disease created by the introduction of nonnative brown and black rats.

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