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Bunn's Short-tailed Bandicoot-rat
Nesokia bunnii
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.
In a Old Babylonian period cuneiform tablet from Tell Abu Antiq (bandicoot here refers to the Bunn's short-tailed bandicoot rat):
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 45192.