Darling Downs Hopping Mouse

Darling Downs Hopping Mouse
Conservation status
Extinct (IUCN 3.1)^[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Muridae
Genus:	Notomys
Species:	N. mordax
Binomial name
*Notomys mordax* Thomas, 1922

The Darling Downs hopping mouse (Notomys mordax) is an extinct species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is known from a single skull found at Darling Downs, Queensland, Australia. Introduced predators such as foxes and domestic cats may have forced this species into extinction.

References

^ Baillie, J.E.M. (2008). Notomys mordax. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 6 January 2009.

Musser, Guy G.; Carleton, Michael D. (16 November 2005). "Superfamily Muroidea (pp. 894-1531)". In Wilson, Don E., and Reeder, DeeAnn M., eds. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2 vols. (2142 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=13001627.