| Kingdom | Phylum | Class | Order | Family |
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| ANIMALIA | CHORDATA | MAMMALIA | RODENTIA | MURIDAE |
| Scientific Name: | Notomys mordax | |||||||||
| Species Authority: | Thomas, 1922 | |||||||||
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| Red List Category & Criteria: | Extinct ver 3.1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Year Assessed: | 2008 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Assessor/s | Baillie, J.E.M. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Evaluator/s: | Lamoreux, J. (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 it was collected in the 1840s, despite intensive survey work. |
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| Range Description: | This species was endemic to Australia. The species was described in 1922 from a single skull thought to have been collected on the Darling Downs, Queensland, in the 1840s (Watts 2008). |
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Regionally extinct:
Australia
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| Population: | It is presumed to be extinct, and is known only from a single skull. |
| Habitat and Ecology: | The habitat and ecology of this species remain unrecorded. |
| Systems: | Terrestrial |
| Major Threat(s): | The reasons for the loss of this species are unknown, but may be related to predation rates by introduced predators such as foxes and domestic cats. |
| Conservation Actions: | There are no conservation measures pertaining to this species. |
| Citation: | Baillie, J.E.M. 2008. Notomys mordax. In: IUCN 2009. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2009.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 21 November 2009. |
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