Cordimus hooijeri

Zijlstra, McFarlane, Van den Hoek Ostende, & Lundberg, 2014

Hooijer's Rat

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Euarchontoglires
Order : Rodentia
Suborder : Supramyomorpha
Infraorder : Myomorphi
Superfamily : Muroidea
Family : Cricetidae
Subfamily : Sigmodontinae
Tribe : incertae sedis
Genus : Cordimus

Species status

Extinct
Found in the wild

Authority citation

Zijlstra, J.S., McFarlane, D.A., Hoek Ostende, L.W. van den and Lundberg, J. 2014-01-02. New rodents (Cricetidae) from the Neogene of Curaçao and Bonaire, Dutch Antilles. Palaeontology 57(5):895-908.

Authority publication link

https://doi.org/10.1111/pala.12091

Original name as described

Cordimus hooijeri

Type material

RGM.444360

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

"Cueba di Curado, Bonaire; late Holocene (after 1499) in age."

Biogeographic realm

Neotropic

Country distribution

Bonaire

Taxonomy notes

recently described fossil species that likely survived past the year 1500

Taxonomy notes citation

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.

IUCN Red List status

Not Evaluated

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