| Kingdom | Phylum | Class | Order | Family |
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| ANIMALIA | CHORDATA | MAMMALIA | RODENTIA | CRICETIDAE |
| Scientific Name: | Neotoma bunkeri | |||
| Species Authority: | Burt, 1932 | |||
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| Red List Category & Criteria: | Extinct ver 3.1 | |||||||||
| Year Assessed: | 2008 | |||||||||
| Assessor/s | Álvarez-Castañeda, S.T., Castro-Arellano, I. & Lacher, T. | |||||||||
| Evaluator/s: | McKnight, M. (Global Mammal Assessment Team) & Amori, G. (Small Nonvolant Mammal Red List Authority) | |||||||||
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Justification: Listed as Extinct because the species has not been recorded since 1931, despite exhaustive surveys. |
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| Range Description: | This species is known only from the type locality in Baja California Sur: Coronados Island (26°06’N, 111°18’W), México (Musser and Carleton 2005). |
| Countries: |
Regionally extinct:
Mexico
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| Population: | No population information could be found. No extant individuals, midden piles, or other evidence have been observed in recent expeditions (Smith et al. 1993). |
| Habitat and Ecology: | Unknown. |
| Systems: | Terrestrial |
| Major Threat(s): | Depletion of food resources and predation by feral cats has been cited as likely causes of the extirpation of this species (Smith et al. 1993). |
| Conservation Actions: | None. |
| Citation: | Álvarez-Castañeda, S.T., Castro-Arellano, I. & Lacher, T. 2008. Neotoma bunkeri. In: IUCN 2009. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2009.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 21 November 2009. |
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