Nyctimene sanctacrucis Troughton, 1931:206
Nendö tube-nosed bat, Nendo tube-nosed fruit bat
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Nyctimene santacrucis Troughton, 1931:206 [orth. error used by Lee et al., 2017]
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: 1892 or before (collection); 1892 (Martin et al., 2023); 1907 (sighting) (Mickleburgh et al., 1992; Fisher & Blomberg, 2012)
IUCN RedList status: Data Deficient
The holotype was donated to the Australian Museum in July 1892, so must have been collected in that year or prior. The last sighting was apparently on Nendö in 1907 (Mickleburgh et al., 1992). However, there is some doubt about exactly which island in the Santa Cruz group that the holotype came from (Flannery, 1995:235).
Distribution
Probably Nendö (=Santa Cruz Island), Santa Cruz Group, Solomon Islands
Biology
Hypodigm
Only known from the holotype, a female.
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Troughton, E. le G. (1931). Three new bats of the genera Pteropus, Nyctimene and Chaerephon from Melanesia. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of N.S.W. 56: 204-209.
Other references:
Fisher, Diana O. and Blomberg, Simon P. (2012). Inferring Extinction of Mammals from Sighting Records, Threats, and Biological Traits. Conservation Biology 26(1): 57-67. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1523-1739.2011.01797.x
Flannery, Timothy F. (1995). Mammals of the South-West Pacific and Moluccan Islands. Comstock/Cornell, Ithaca, Ny, USA. [p. 235]
Leary, T., Hamilton, S. & Helgen, K. (2008). Nyctimene sanctacrucis. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.1. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 18 October 2011.
Lee, T. E., Fisher, D. O., Blomberg, S. P. and Wintle, B. A. (2017). Extinct or still out there? Disentangling influences on extinction and rediscovery helps to clarify the fate of species on the edge. Global Change Biology 23(2): 621-634. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.13421
MacPhee RDE and Flemming C (1999) Requiem æternam: the last 5 ve hundred years of mammalian species extinctions. In MacPhee RDE, ed., Extinctions in Near Time: Causes, Contexts, and Consequences, pp. 333–371. Kluwer Academic/Plenum, New York.
Martin, Thomas E., Bennett, Gareth C., Fairbairn, Andrew J. and Mooers, A. Ø. (2023). ‘Lost’ taxa and their conservation implications. Animal Conservation 26(1): 14-24. https://doi.org/10.1111/acv.12788 [Appendix S2 (1617 taxa not seen >10 years); Appendix S3 (562 taxa not seen >50 years)]
Mickleburgh, Simon P., Hutson, Anthony M. and Racey, Paul A. (1992). Old World fruit bats. An action plan for their conservation. Gland, Switzerland: IUCN. viii + 252 pp.
Parnaby, Harry, Ingleby, Sandy and Divljan, Anja. (2017). Type specimens of non-fossil mammals in the Australian Museum, Sydney. Records of the Australian Museum 69(5): 277-420. https://doi.org/10.3853/j.2201-4349.69.2017.1653
Simmons, N.B. and A.L. Cirranello. 2023. Bat Species of the World: A taxonomic and geographic database. Version 1.3. Accessed on 06/18/2023.
Turvey, Samuel T. (2009). Holocene mammal extinctions, pp. 41-61. In: Turvey, Samuel T. (ed.). Holocene Extinctions. Oxford, UK & New York, USA: Oxford University Press. xii + 352 pp.
Turvey, Samuel T. and Fritz, Susanne A. (2011). The ghosts of mammals past: biological and geographical patterns of global mammalian extinction across the Holocene. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 366(1577): 2564-2576. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2011.0020 [Supplementary Information]
Wilson, D. E. and Reeder, D. M. (2005). Mammal species of the world: a taxonomic and geographic reference. Third edition. Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University Press.
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