Bunker's woodrat (''Neotoma bryanti bunkeri'') is an extinct subspecies of

Bryant's woodrat Bryant's woodrat (''Neotoma bryanti'') is a species of new-world rodent in the family Cricetidae native to the Southwestern United States and Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the south ...

in the family

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. Only five specimens are known; these were collected in 1932 by W.H. Burt and are housed at a museum at UCLA. ''Neotoma bunkeri'' was only described from

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. It probably died out as a result of depletion of food resources and predation by

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.SMITH, F. A., B. T. BESTELMEYER, J. BIARDI, AND M. STRONG. 1993. Anthropogenic extinction of the endemic woodrat, Neotoma bunkeri Burt. Biodiversity Letters 1:149-155

References

*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. Neotoma Mammals described in 1932 Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Neotoma-stub