Spelaeomys florensis
– Extinct
Taxonomy
|
Kingdom:
|
ANIMALIA
|
|
Phylum:
|
CHORDATA
|
|
Class:
|
MAMMALIA
|
|
Order:
|
RODENTIA
|
|
Family:
|
MURIDAE
|
|
Scientific Name:
|
Spelaeomys florensis
|
|
Species Authority:
|
Hooijer, 1957
|
|
Common Name/s:
|
FLORES CAVE RAT (Eng)
|
Assessment Information
|
Red List Category & Criteria:
|
EX ver 2.3 (1994)
|
|
Year Assessed:
|
1996
|
|
Annotations:
|
Needs updating
|
|
Assessor/s:
|
Baillie, J.
|
|
Justification:
|
MacPhee and Flemming (1999) consider this species to have become extinct before 1500 AD. The species is known only from subfossil fragments. S. florensis may be removed from the Red List on this basis, however, the matter has been referred to the relevant Specialist Group for a final decision.
|
Geographic Range
|
Countries:
|
Regionally extinct:
Indonesia
|
Habitat and Ecology
Bibliography
|
Bibliography:
|
MacPhee, R.D.E. and Flemming, C. 1999. Requiem Æternam. The last five hundred years of mammalian species extinctions. In: R.D.E. MacPhee (ed.) Extinctions in Near Time, pp.333-371. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York.
|
