Lagostomus crassus

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
ANIMALIA	CHORDATA	MAMMALIA	RODENTIA	CHINCHILLIDAE

Scientific Name:	Lagostomus crassus
Species Authority:	Thomas, 1910

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria:	Extinct     ver 3.1
Year Published:	2008
Assessor/s:	Lessa, E., Ojeda, R. & Bidau, C.
Reviewer/s:	Amori, G. (Small Nonvolant Mammal Red List Authority) & Schipper, J. (Global Mammal Assessment Team)
Justification: This species is listed as Extinct because it is only known from one skull collected in southern Peru. A living specimen has not been located during any surveys.

Geographic Range [top]

Range Description:	Known only by a single skull from southern Peru, presumably of an animal that lived in recent times (Nowak, 1999).
Countries:	Regionally extinct: Peru
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Population [top]

Population:

The is no population data on this species.

Habitat and Ecology [top]

Habitat and Ecology:	There is nothing known about the ecology of this species.
Systems:	Terrestrial

Threats [top]

Major Threat(s):

Nothing is known of the threats to this species.

Conservation Actions [top]

Conservation Actions:

None

Bibliography [top]

IUCN. 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Available at: http://www.iucnredlist.org. (Accessed: 5 October 2008). Nowak, R. M. 1999. Walker's Mammals of the World. The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA and London, UK.