Gloomy tube-nosed bat

Species of bat

Gloomy tube-nosed bat
Conservation status

Critically endangered, possibly extinct  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
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. ^ Fukui, D.; Sano, A. (2019). "Murina tenebrosa". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2019: e.T13948A22096705. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-3.RLTS.T13948A22096705.en. Retrieved 14 November 2021.
  2. ^ "A Five-Year Plan for Global Bat Conservation" (PDF). batcon.org. Bat Conservation International. October 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 April 2018. Retrieved 1 May 2017.
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Species of subfamily Murininae
Harpiocephalus
(Hairy-winged bats)
  • Lesser hairy-winged bat (H. harpia)
Harpiola
  • Peter's tube-nosed bat (H. grisea)
  • Formosan golden tube-nosed bat (H. isodon)
Murina
(Tube-nosed
Insectivorous bats)
  • Bronze tube-nosed bat (M. aenea)
  • Annam tube-nosed bat (M. annamitica)
  • Little tube-nosed bat (M. aurata)
  • Bala tube-nosed bat (M. balaensis)
  • Beelzebub's tube-nosed bat (M. beelzebub)
  • Bicolored tube-nosed bat (M. bicolor)
  • Golden-haired tube-nosed bat (M. chrysochaetes)
  • Round-eared tube-nosed bat (M. cyclotis)
  • Elery's tube-nosed bat (M. eleryi)
  • M. fanjingshanensis
  • Fea's tube-nosed bat (M. feae)
  • Fiona's tube-nosed bat (M. fionae)
  • Flute-nosed bat (M. florium)
  • Dusky tube-nosed bat (M. fusca)
  • M. gracilis
  • M. guilleni
  • M. harpioloides
  • Harrison's tube-nosed bat (M. harrisoni)
  • Hilgendorf's tube-nosed bat (M. hilgendorfi)
  • Hkakabo Razi tube-nosed bat (M. hkakaboraziensis)
  • Hutton's tube-nosed bat (M. huttoni)
  • Jaintia tube-nosed bat (M. jaintiana)
  • M. jinchui
  • M. kontumensis
  • Greater tube-nosed bat (M. leucogaster)
  • M. liboensis
  • Lorelie's tube-nosed bat (M. lorelieae)
  • M. peninsularis
  • Rainforest tube-nosed bat (M. pluvialis)
  • Taiwan tube-nosed bat (M. puta)
  • M. recondita
  • Gilded tube-nosed bat (M. rozendaali)
  • Ryukyu tube-nosed bat (M. ryukyuana)
  • Shuipu tube-nosed bat (M. shuipuensis)
  • Brown tube-nosed bat (M. suilla)
  • Gloomy tube-nosed bat (M. tenebrosa)
  • Scully's tube-nosed bat (M. tubinaris)
  • Ussuri tube-nosed bat (M. ussuriensis)
  • Walston's tube-nosed bat (M. walstoni)
Taxon identifiers
Murina tenebrosa


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