Short-tailed Hopping Mouse

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Subclass:	Eutheria
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Muridae
Genus:	Notomys
Species:	N. The conservation status of a Species is an indicator of the likelihood of that species remaining extant either in the present day or the near future In Biology and Ecology, extinction is the cessation of existence of a Species or group of taxa. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (also known as the IUCN Red List or Red Data List) created in 1963 is the world's most comprehensive inventory of the global Chordates ( Phylum Chordata) are a group of Animals that includes the Vertebrates together with several closely related Invertebrates Mammals ( class Mammalia) are a class of Vertebrate Animals characterized by the presence of Sweat glands, including sweat glands See also Evolution of mammals Eutheria ("true beast" are a group of Mammals consisting of Placental mammals plus all extinct Mammals Rodentia is an order of Mammals also known as rodents, characterised by two continuously-growing incisors in the upper and lower jaws which must Muridae is the largest family of Mammals It contains over 600 species found naturally throughout Eurasia Africa and Australia A hopping mouse or kangaroo rat is any of about ten different Australian native mice in the genus Notomys. amplus

Binomial name

Notomys amplus
Brazenor, 1936

The Short-tailed Hopping Mouse (Notomys amplus) is an extinct species of mouse from open stony (gibber) plains with desert grasses, low shrubs and sand ridges in the area around Charlotte Waters, near Alice Springs in Central Australia. Year 1936 ( MCMXXXVI) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. A mouse (plural mice) is a small Animal that belongs to one A desert is a Landscape or region that receives very little precipitation. A shrub or Bush is a horticultural rather than strictly botanical category of Woody plant, distinguished from a Tree Charlotte Waters, Northern Territory, is located close to the South Australian border Alice Springs is the second largest town in the Northern Territory of Australia. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Australia topics. It weighed 80 grams. The last record is from June 1896. Year 1896 ( MDCCCXCVI) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap year Only two complete specimens were collected, probably from Aborigines. This is an article about a class of people as identified and defined within Australian law

External source

Flannery, Tim & Schouten, Peter (2001). A Gap in Nature: Discovering the World's Extinct Animals. Atlantic Monthly Press, New York. ISBN 0-87113-797-6.

References

Baillie (1996). Notomys amplus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (also known as the IUCN Red List or Red Data List) created in 1963 is the world's most comprehensive inventory of the global IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 11 May 2006. Database entry includes a brief justification of why this species is listed as extinct

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