Order Rodentia - Family Cricetidae
Author
Wilson, Don E.
Author
Reeder, DeeAnn
text
2005
The Johns Hopkins University Press
Baltimore
Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2
955
1189
book chapter
0-8018-8221-4
10.5281/zenodo.7316535
Neotoma (Neotoma) bunkeri
Burt 1932
Neotoma (Neotoma) bunkeri
Burt 1932
,
Trans. San Diego Soc. Nat. Hist., 7: 181
.
Type Locality:
México
,
Baja California Sur
, Coronados Isl;
26°06'N
,
111°18'W
.
Vernacular Names:
Coronados Island Woodrat
.
Distribution:
Known only from the type locality.
Conservation:
IUCN
– Endangered.
Discussion:
Subgenus
Neotoma
,
lepida
species group (
sensu
Edwards and Bradley, 2002
b
). Likely conspecific with
N. lepida
according to
Mascarello (1978)
. Not collected since 1932; judged "extinct for years or even decades" by Smith et al. (1993:152), probably due to a combination of habitat destruction and domestic cat predation (also see Alvarez-Castañeda and Ortega-Rubio, 2003).