San Martín Island woodrat
| San Martín Island woodrat | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Cricetidae |
| Subfamily: | Neotominae |
| Genus: | Neotoma |
| Species: | |
| Subspecies: | †N. b. martinensis
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| Trinomial name | |
| †Neotoma bryanti martinensis Goldman, 1905
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The San Martín Island woodrat (Neotoma bryanti martinensis) is an extinct subspecies of Bryant's woodrat in the family Cricetidae.
Description
[edit]It was endemic to San Martín Island, located off the Pacific coast of the central Baja California Peninsula, part of southwestern Baja California state in northwestern Mexico.
The primary threat to the San Martín Island woodrat was predation by feral cats on the island.
References
[edit]- ^ Álvarez-Castañeda, S.T.; Castro-Arellano, I.; Lacher, T. (2018). "Neotoma bryanti ssp. martinensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T14580A124171713. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T14580A124171713.en. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
- Musser, G. G. and M. D. Carleton. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. pp. 894–1531 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
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Categories:
- IUCN Red List extinct species
- Neotoma
- Endemic mammals of Mexico
- Extinct animals of Mexico
- Rodents of North America
- Endemic fauna of the Baja California Peninsula
- Mammals described in 1905
- Extinct mammals of North America
- Rodent extinctions since 1500
- Species made extinct by human activities
- Species endangered by invasive species
- Cricetidae stubs