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Gloomy tube-nosed bat

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Gloomy tube-nosed bat

Critically endangered, possibly extinct  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Mammalia
Order:
Chiroptera
Family:
Vespertilionidae
Genus:
Murina
Species:
M. tenebrosa
Binomial name
Murina tenebrosa
Yoshiyuki, 1970

The gloomy tube-nosed bat (Murina tenebrosa) is a species of vesper bat in the family Vespertilionidae. It is only known by the holotype, an old female, collected on Tsushima Island in 1962. It might be possibly extinct as Tsushima is badly deforested and surveys to rediscover this species failed. Due to its imperiled status, it is identified by the Alliance for Zero Extinction as a species in danger of imminent extinction.[2]

References

  1. ^ Maeda, K. (2008). "Murina tenebrosa". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2008: e.T13948A4369542.
  2. ^ "A Five-Year Plan for Global Bat Conservation" (PDF). batcon.org. Bat Conservation International. October 2013. Retrieved 1 May 2017.


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