Hooijer's rat

Hooijer's rat
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Cricetidae
Subfamily: Sigmodontinae
Genus: †Cordimus
Species:
†C. hooijeri
Binomial name
†Cordimus hooijeri
Zijlstra, McFarlane, Van Den Hoek Ostende, & Lundberg, 2014

Hooijer's rat (Cordimus hooijeri) is a subfossil species of rat. This species likely went extinct in the last 500 years, and lived in Bonaire.[1][2]

References

  1. ^ "Cordimus hooijeri (id=1006767)". ASM Mammal Diversity Database. American Society of Mammalogists.
  2. ^ Zijlstra, J. S.; McFarlane, D. A.; Van Den Hoek Ostende, L. W.; Lundberg, J. (2014). "New rodents (Cricetidae) from the Neogene of Curaçao and Bonaire, Dutch Antilles". Palaeontology. 57 (5): 895–908. Bibcode:2014Palgy..57..895Z. doi:10.1111/pala.12091. S2CID 22539800.
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