Talk:Capricorn rabbit rat

Rodents Low‑importance

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Rodents, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of rodents on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.RodentsWikipedia:WikiProject RodentsTemplate:WikiProject RodentsRodent articles

Low

This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

WikiProject Rodents to-do list:

Here are some tasks awaiting attention:

Article requests : Drafts
Cleanup : Beaver dam • Bolivian hemorrhagic fever • Campbell's dwarf hamster • Fancy mouse • Golden hamster • Guinea pig breed
Expand : Bolivian hemorrhagic fever • Least chipmunk (requested) • California ground squirrel (requested) • Lemming (requested)
Merge : List of literary accounts of the Pied Piper • Mousetrap
NPOV : Birbalomys • Gambian pouched rat • Golden hamster • Hamster ball • Mountain Beaver • Pacarana • Plague (disease) • Prairie dog • Rat-catcher • Syrian hamster variations • The Rats (novel) • Tree squirrel
Stubs : Rodent stubs
Update : Baird's pocket gopher • Beaver • Black squirrel • Chinchilla • Cypriot mouse • Eurasian beaver • House mouse • Rabies
Verify : Acouchi • Aethomys • Ailuravus • Allegheny woodrat • American red squirrel • Anatole (mouse) • Anomalomyidae • Apodemus • Arctic ground squirrel • Argentine hemorrhagic fever • Armintomys • Batomys • Beaver • Beaver dam • Black-tailed prairie dog • Blesmol • Bobak marmot • Eligmodontia • Guinea pig • Mountain beaver • North American beaver • Tokudaia
Wikify : Baird's pocket gopher • Golden hamster • Indian giant flying squirrel
Other : photo requests

Requested move 9 January 2023

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: Moved. (non-admin closure) Adumbrativus (talk) 02:42, 16 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Conilurus capricornensis → Capricorn rabbit rat – Modern mammal, switch title from binomial to common name.

The Capricorn rabbit rat is part of the modern fauna of Australia. It is known only from subfossil remains but it is considered to have survived until European settlement. See the IUCN Red List for more information.

Since the Capricorn rabbit rat is a modern mammal, typically its Wikipedia article would be titled with the common name. This applies even in some unique cases. Like the Capricorn rabbit rat, the Nullarbor dwarf bettong is known only from subfossil remains but it is considered to have survived until European settlement. The article Nullarbor dwarf bettong is titled with the common name. Columbianmammoth (talk) 01:55, 9 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Support: per nom, why not? Seems to be widely used in academic texts. YorkshireExpat (talk) 20:27, 9 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.