Notomys mordax

– Extinct

Taxonomy

Kingdom:

ANIMALIA

Phylum:

CHORDATA

Class:

MAMMALIA

Order:

RODENTIA

Family:

MURIDAE

Scientific Name:

Notomys mordax

Species Authority:

Thomas, 1922

Common Name/s:

English	—	DARLING DOWNS 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:

This species was described in 1922 from a single damaged skull thought to have been collected on the Darling Downs, Queensland, some time prior to 1846.

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 Darling Downs hopping mouse was endemic to Australia.
Countries:	Regionally extinct: Australia

Population

Population:

The species was described in 1922 from a single damaged skull thought to have been collected on the Darling Downs, Queensland, some time prior to 1846.

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.

Citation:	Baillie, J. 1996. Notomys mordax. In: IUCN 2007. 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 05 September 2008.
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