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

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.

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