Conilurus albipes

– Extinct

Taxonomy

Kingdom:

ANIMALIA

Phylum:

CHORDATA

Class:

MAMMALIA

Order:

RODENTIA

Family:

MURIDAE

Scientific Name:

Conilurus albipes

Species Authority:

(Lichtenstein, 1829)

Common Name/s:

English

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RABBIT-EARED TREE-RAT, WHITE-FOOTED RABBIT RAT, WHITE-FOOTED TREE-RAT

Assessment Information

Red List Category & Criteria:

EX ver 2.3 (1994)

Year Assessed:

1996

Annotations:

Needs updating

Assessor/s:

Baillie, J.

Justification:

This species has not been recorded in the twentieth century and is presumed extinct.

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:	Conilurus albipes is an Australian endemic species.
Countries:	Regionally extinct: Australia (New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria)

Population

Population:

It has not been recorded over the last century and is presumed to be extinct.

Habitat and Ecology

System:

Terrestrial

List of Habitats:

4.5	Grassland - Subtropical/Tropical Dry

Threats

Threats:

It has been suggested that the possible causes for extinction of this species were habitat disruption by introduced rabbits and livestock, and predation by foxes.

Bibliography

Bibliography:

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. Conilurus albipes. In: IUCN 2007. 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 20 July 2008.
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