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Bunn's short-tailed bandicoot rat
Conservation status
Endangered  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Muridae
Genus:	Nesokia
Species:	N. bunnii
Binomial name
Nesokia bunnii (Khajuria, 1981)

Bunn's short-tailed bandicoot rat (Nesokia bunnii) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is found only in the marshes of southeastern Iraq and is named for the Iraqi zoologist Dr. Munir K. Bunni. It is feared that the species might have gone extinct due to the draining of the Mesopotamian Marshes.

References

1. Stuart, S.N. (2008). "Nesokia bunnii". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2008: e.T14660A4453417. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2008.RLTS.T14660A4453417.en. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
2. Beolens, Bo, et al. The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals. Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Cop, 2009, p. 64.‌
3. Scott, Derek A., ed. (1995). A Directory of Wetlands in the Middle East. IUCN / International Waterfowl and Wetlands Research Bureau. p. 264. ISBN 978-2-8317-0270-4. Archived from the original on 24 December 2018.

• Musser, G. G.; Carleton, M. D. (2005). "Superfamily Muroidea". In Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 1415. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.

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