The Cyprus spiny mouse (''Acomys nesiotes'') is a little-known rodent

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Cyprus Cyprus ; tr, Kıbrıs (), officially the Republic of Cyprus,, , lit: Republic of Cyprus is an island country located south of the Anatolian Peninsula in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Its continental position is disputed; while it is ...

. These

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animals are generally found in arid areas. After the last reliable record in 1980 no considerable effort has been made until 2007 when four individuals were rediscovered. Due to the insufficient data of its population the

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considers it as data deficient.

References

* Nowak, R.M. (ed.) 1999. Walkers Mammals of the World. Sixth edition. The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London. * Wilson, D.E. and Reeder, D.M. (eds) 1993. Mammal Species of the World: a taxonomic and geographic reference. Second edition. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington and London.

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Cyprus Spiny Mouse rediscovered

The Extinction Website
Acomys Rodents of Europe Endemic fauna of Cyprus Mammals described in 1903 Taxa named by Dorothea Bate {{cyprus-stub

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