Hooijer's rat

Subfossil species of rat

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.