Bramble Cay, also known as Maizab Kaur (also spelt Maizub Kaur) and Massaramcoer, is a small cay located at the northeastern edge of Australia and the...
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The Bramble Cay melomys, or Bramble Cay mosaic-tailed rat (Melomys rubicola), is a recently extinct species of rodent in the family Muridae and subfamily...
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community Bramble Bank, a sandbank in the Solent notable for an annual cricket match played during low tides Bramble Cay, Australia Bramble Peak, Victoria...
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List of Torres Strait Islands (redirect from Bramble Cay, Queensland)
Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government. Retrieved 3 November 2019. "Bramble Cay – cay in the Torres Shire (entry 4280)". Queensland Place Names. Queensland...
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over time. In 2016, Bramble Cay islet in the Great Barrier Reef was inundated. This flooded the habitat of a rodent named Bramble Cay melomys. It was officially...
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Peoples Bay Nature Reserve Black Rocks, Queensland, rocky islets south of Bramble Cay in the Torres Strait Black Rocks, South Australia, an islet off the western...
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is on Raine Island. In the Torres Strait there is a large rookery on Bramble Cay. The Coral Sea has nesting areas of world significance. Major nesting...
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also become extinct by sea level rise. This has already happened with Bramble Cay melomys in Australia. Finally, climate change has been linked with the...
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Islands (Russia, United States) Bramble Cay melomys Melomys rubicola Thomas, 1924 Rodentia 2016 1 Australia (Bramble Cay) Oriente cave rat Boromys offella...
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Antarctic Territory (which is not universally recognised) are included. Bramble Cay, Torres Strait Islands, Queensland (9°8'23" S) Continental Australia:...
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rodent Cape York melomys, related to the extinct Bramble Cay melomys, which was found only on Bramble Cay in the Torres Strait and confirmed extinct in 2016...
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Australian Cordillera division. It reaches from Torres Strait (between Bramble Cay, its northernmost island, and the south coast of Papua New Guinea) in...
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climate change, especially species living on low-lying islands. The Bramble Cay melomys, which lived in the northernmost point of land of Australia,...
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York melomys, Melomys capensis Fawn-footed melomys, Melomys cervinipes Bramble Cay melomys†, Melomys rubicola – extinct Black-footed tree-rat, Mesembriomys...
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paikea, tiale katuli, tiare katuri, katuri, naunau, and momoe. Found on Bramble Cay in the Torres Strait, and eaten as a type of spinach by humans. Boerhavia...
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Tanganyika 08°12′S Tokelau (New Zealand) Atafu Atoll 08°31′S Australia Bramble Cay, Torres Strait Islands, Queensland Cape York (mainland) 09°08′S 10°41′S...
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Bramble Cay melomys were declared extinct in June 2016. This is the first recorded mammalian extinction due to anthropogenic climate change....
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existing terrestrial ecosystems, such as contaminating their soils. The Bramble Cay melomys is the first known land mammal to go extinct as a result of sea...
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settlement of Australia, but the northernmost land is the uninhabited Bramble Cay, 173 kilometres (107 mi) to the east. Most of the island is subject to...
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mosaic-tailed rat Melomys paveli - Pavel's Seram melomys Melomys rubicola - Bramble Cay mosaic-tailed rat Melomys rufescens - black-tailed mosaic-tailed rat...
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also become extinct by sea level rise. This has already happened with Bramble Cay melomys in Australia. Finally, climate change has been linked with the...
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Philippines, Christmas I, New Guinea, Solomon Is, Australia (including on Bramble Cay in the Torres Strait), many of the Pacific Islands Lepturus tenuis Balf...
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100 kilometres south remains in good health. On the other hand, the Bramble Cay melomys, which lived on a Great Barrier Reef island, was reported as...
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islands known as Anchor Cay, Aubusi Island, Black Rocks, Boigu Island, Bramble Cay, Dauan Island, Deliverance Island, East Cay, Kaumag Island, Kerr Islet...
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coryphomys (Coryphomys buehleri) Lesser stick-nest rat (Leporillus apicalis) Bramble Cay melomys (Melomys rubicola) Short-tailed hopping mouse (Notomys amplus)...
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loss due to logging and sugar cane production. 2009 Bramble Cay melomys Melomys rubicola Bramble Cay, Australia 2015 (IUCN) Sea level rise as a consequence...
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(Melomys obiensis) Pavel's Seram mosaic-tailed rat (Melomys paveli) †Bramble Cay mosaic-tailed rat (Melomys rubicola) – considered the only mammal endemic...
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belong to Australia: Anchor Cay, Aubusi Island, Black Rocks, Boigu Island, Bramble Cay, Dauan Island, Deliverance Island, East Cay, Kaumag Island, Kerr Islet...
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Protection, and the University of Queensland jointly report that the Bramble Cay melomys is likely extinct, adding: "Significantly, this probably represents...
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guano on Lady Elliot Island, Wreck Reefs, Swain Reefs, Raine Island, Bramble Cay, Brampton Shoal, and Pilgrim Island to the Anglo-Australian Guano Company...
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