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]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Cricetidae |
| Subfamily: | Sigmodontinae |
| Genus: | †Cordimus |
| Species: | †C. hooijeri
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| Binomial name | |
| †Cordimus hooijeri Zijlstra, McFarlane, Van Den Hoek Ostende, & Lundberg, 2014
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References
edit- ^ "Cordimus hooijeri (id=1006767)". ASM Mammal Diversity Database. American Society of Mammalogists.
- ^ 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.
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