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Murina tenebrosa Yoshiyuki, 1970:195

Gloomy tube-nosed bat, Tsushima tube-nosed bat

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

 

 

Conservation Status

Extinct

Last record: 1962 (Fisher & Blomberg, 2012; Lee et al., 2017)

IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered (Possibly Extinct)

 

Distribution

Tsushima Island (& Yaku Island?), Japan

 

Only known from the holotype collected on Tsushima Island. However, a second specimen may have been collected on Yaku[shima] island (Abe et. al. 2005).

 

Biology

 

 

Hypodigm

Holotype: National Science Museum, Tokyo M8812 (female)
Notes

Only known from the holotype collected on Tsushima Island. However, a second specimen may have been collected on Yaku[shima] island (Abe et. al. 2005).

 

Media

 

 

References

Abe, H., Ishii, N., Ito, T., Kaneko, Y., Maeda, K., Miura, S. and Yoneda, M. (2005). A Guide to the Mammals of Japan. Tokai University Press, Kanagawa, Japan.

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

Fisher, Diana O. and Humphreys, Aelys M. (2024). Evidence for modern extinction in plants and animals. Biological Conservation 298: 110772. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2024.110772

Fukui, D. & Sano, A. 2019. Murina tenebrosa. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2019: e.T13948A22096705. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-3.RLTS.T13948A22096705.en. Accessed on 09 July 2022.

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

Maeda, K. (2008). Murina tenebrosa. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.1. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 17 October 2011.

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.

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