Bunker's Woodrat | |
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Information | |
Common Name | coronados Island woodrat |
Range | Coronados Islands, Baja California Sur, and Mexico. |
Scientific Classification | |
Kingdom | Animalia |
Phylum | Chordata |
Class | Mammalia |
Order | Rodentia |
Family | Cricetidae |
Genus | Neotoma |
Species | †Neotoma bunkeri |
Conservation Status | |
Extinct |
The Bunker's Woodrat (Neotoma bunkeri) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. Only 5 specimens are known to science; these were collected in 1932 by W.H. Burt and are housed at a museum at UCLA. Neotoma bunkeri was only described from Coronados Islands, Baja California Sur, Mexico. It probably died out as a result of depletion of food resources and predation by feral cats.