The Christmas Island pipistrelle, a bat species found only on an Australian island, has been declared extinct. The news came eight years too late. The population of this species rapidly declined from being common and widespread in the 1980s to … Today’s update declares the Christmas Island Pipistrelle (Pipistrellus murrayi) – a bat species endemic to Australia’s Christmas Island – as Extinct.
This week the IUCN announced that the Christmas Island pipistrelle bat ( Pipistrellus murrayi) had officially been declared extinct. The population of this species rapidly declined from being common and widespread in the 1980s to between four and 20 animals in January 2009. The Christmas Island pipistrelleLindy Lumsden/IUCN By Chelsea Whyte The Christmas Island pipistrelle, a bat species found only on an Australian island, has been declared extinct. Biologists believe the bat became extinct on 27 August 2009. I wrote about the pipistrelle bat three times in 2009, a critical year when conservationists struggled in vain to prevent the species’ extinction. The final nail in the coffin was hammered in as part of the latest update to the Red List of Threatened Species, which is maintained by the International Union for […] The Christmas Island Pipistrelle was a species of bat in the Vespertilionidae family. Established in 1964, the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species has evolved to become the world’s most comprehensive information source on the global conservation status of animal, fungi and plant species. It was thought to be the same as the Pipistrellus tenuis, but research on the bat's baculum showed that Pipistrellus murrayi was a different species. This, sadly, was not exactly news to those who have followed this species. It was a small bat, and lived only on Christmas Island, Australia. Lindy Lumsden/IUCN. Today’s update declares the Christmas Island Pipistrelle (Pipistrellus murrayi) – a bat species endemic to Australia’s Christmas Island – as Extinct.
This week the IUCN announced that the Christmas Island pipistrelle bat ( Pipistrellus murrayi) had officially been declared extinct. The population of this species rapidly declined from being common and widespread in the 1980s to between four and 20 animals in January 2009. The Christmas Island pipistrelleLindy Lumsden/IUCN By Chelsea Whyte The Christmas Island pipistrelle, a bat species found only on an Australian island, has been declared extinct. Biologists believe the bat became extinct on 27 August 2009. I wrote about the pipistrelle bat three times in 2009, a critical year when conservationists struggled in vain to prevent the species’ extinction. The final nail in the coffin was hammered in as part of the latest update to the Red List of Threatened Species, which is maintained by the International Union for […] The Christmas Island Pipistrelle was a species of bat in the Vespertilionidae family. Established in 1964, the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species has evolved to become the world’s most comprehensive information source on the global conservation status of animal, fungi and plant species. It was thought to be the same as the Pipistrellus tenuis, but research on the bat's baculum showed that Pipistrellus murrayi was a different species. This, sadly, was not exactly news to those who have followed this species. It was a small bat, and lived only on Christmas Island, Australia. Lindy Lumsden/IUCN. Today’s update declares the Christmas Island Pipistrelle (Pipistrellus murrayi) – a bat species endemic to Australia’s Christmas Island – as Extinct.