Sardinian pika

English

Noun

Sardinian pika (plural Sardinian pikas)

1. An extinct species of pika, Prolagus sardus, endemic to Sardinia, Corsica, and neighbouring Mediterranean islands.
   • 2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherworlds, Penguin, published 2023, page 53:

     The Sardinian pika – the last of the larger Mediterranean species of Prolagus – was almost wiped out through competition and predation from invasive species introduced by the Romans, only holding on in isolated communities until becoming extinct perhaps within the last 200 years.