Critically Endangered
Fossorial giant rat
Gyldenstolpia fronto
Fossorial giant rat is a rodent in the family Cricetidae (order Rodentia) — Gyldenstolpia fronto, recorded as Critically Endangered.
The rodent
Rodents have ever-growing incisors. Species here are wild forms with a threat category — chipmunks, mole-rats, deer mice.
This is a named wild mammal with a photograph and a threat category on the public record.
Range and habitat
It is found in Argentina and Brazil but was determined extinct following a recent assessment of the conservation status of sigmodontine rodents. Its natural habitat is assumed to be dry savanna, but there have been no ecological details reported.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
In crisis
Fossorial giant rat is Critically Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Fossorial giant rat — often a short stub, Wikidata item Q41529880. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
