San Martín Island woodrat
| San Martín Island woodrat | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Cricetidae |
| Subfamily: | Neotominae |
| Genus: | Neotoma |
| Species: | N. bryanti |
| 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
It was
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
- . 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.