The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species

Caloprymnus campestris

 – Extinct

Taxonomy

Kingdom: ANIMALIA
Phylum: CHORDATA
Class: MAMMALIA
Order: DIPROTODONTIA
Family: POTOROIDAE
Scientific Name: Caloprymnus campestris
Species Authority: (Gould, 1843)
Common Name/s: BUFF-NOSED RAT-KANGAROO (Eng)
DESERT RAT KANGAROO (Eng)
PLAINS RAT-KANGAROO (Eng)
KANGOUROU-RAT DU DÉSERT (Fre)
CANGURO-RATA DESÉRTICO (Spa)

Assessment Information

Red List Category & Criteria: EX    ver 2.3 (1994)
Year Assessed: 1996
Annotations: Needs updating
Assessor/s: Australasian Marsupial & Monotreme Specialist Group
Justification: There have been no reliable records of this species since 1935.
History:
1965-"Status inadequately known-survey required or data sought" (Scott 1965)
1982-Indeterminate (Thornback and Jenkins 1982)
1986-Indeterminate (IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre 1986)
1988-Indeterminate (IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre 1988)
1990-Indeterminate (IUCN 1990)
1994-Extinct (Groombridge 1994)

Geographic Range

Range Description: Caloprymnus campestris was endemic to Australia.
Countries: Regionally extinct:

Australia

Population

Population: There have been no reliable records of the species since 1935.

Habitat and Ecology

Habitat and Ecology: The desert rat-kangaroo was found on gibber plains, clay pans and sandridges.
System: Terrestrial

Threats

Threats: Hunting, direct habitat alteration by man, and introduced predators have all contributed to the extinction of this species.

Bibliography

Bibliography:

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

Groombridge, B. 1992. Global Biodiversity: Status of the Earth’s Living Resources. Report compiled by the World Conservation Monitoring Centre. Chapman and Hall, London.

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.

Maxwell, S., Burbidge, A.A. and Morris, K. (compilers) 1996. Action Plan for Australian Marsupials and Monotremes. IUCN/SSC Australasian Marsupial and Monotreme Specialist Group. .

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

Scott, P. (ed.) 1965. Section XIII. Preliminary List of Rare Mammals and Birds. In: The Launching of a New Ark, pp. 15–207. First Report of the President and Trustees of the World Wildlife Fund. An International Foundation for saving the world's wildlife and wild places 1961–1964. Collins, 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: Australasian Marsupial & Monotreme Specialist Group 1996. Caloprymnus campestris. In: IUCN 2007. 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 15 May 2008.
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