Notomys longicaudatus

– Extinct

Taxonomy

Kingdom:

ANIMALIA

Phylum:

CHORDATA

Class:

MAMMALIA

Order:

RODENTIA

Family:

MURIDAE

Scientific Name:

Notomys longicaudatus

Species Authority:

(Gould, 1844)

Common Name/s:

English	—	LONG-TAILED HOPPING MOUSE
French	—	SOURIS SAUTEUSE
Spanish	—	RATONES SALTADORES DE AUSTRALIA

Assessment Information

Red List Category & Criteria:

EX ver 2.3 (1994)

Year Assessed:

1996

Annotations:

Needs updating

Assessor/s:

Baillie, J.

Justification:

The last specimens of this species were collected in 1901.

History:

1982	-	Extinct (Thornback and Jenkins 1982)
1986	-	Extinct (IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre 1986)
1988	-	Extinct (IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre 1988)
1990	-	Extinct (IUCN 1990)
1994	-	Extinct (Groombridge 1994)

Geographic Range

Range Description:	The long-tailed hopping mouse, Notomys longicaudatus was endemic to Australia.
Countries:	Regionally extinct: Australia

Population

Population:

The last specimens of this species were collected in 1901.

Habitat and Ecology

Habitat and Ecology:	Australian hopping mice inhabit sand dunes, grasslands, tree and shrub heaths, and lightly wooded areas.
System:	Terrestrial

Threats

Threats:

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.

Bibliography

Bibliography:

Calaby, J.H. and Lee, A.K. 1989. The rare and endangered rodents of the Australasian Region. In: W.Z. Lidicker Jr. (ed.) Rodents: A World Survey of Species of Conservation Concern. Occasional paper of the IUCN/SSC No. 4. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.

Groombridge, B. (ed.) 1994. 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.

IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre. 1986. 1986 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre. 1988. 1988 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

IUCN. 1990. 1990 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

Nowak, R.M. (ed.) 1999. Walkers Mammals of the World. Sixth edition. The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London.

Thornback, J. and Jenkins, M. 1982. The IUCN Mammal Red Data Book. Part 1: Threatened mammalian taxa of the Americas and the Australasian zoogeographic region (excluding Cetacea). IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.

Citation:	Baillie, J. 1996. Notomys longicaudatus. In: IUCN 2007. 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 28 August 2008.
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