Search launched for 25 missing species

Thanks for sharing that O.C., was an interesting read! Some very useful tips on how to facilitate Pink fairy armadillos in there, its great! Hopefully in the future more successful attempts of putting animals like this one and hopefully more majorities of fossorial mammals will be kept in captivity.
On a side note, only on the second page, I had no Idea that these animals were kept at the Brookfield zoo! Thats interesting.
 
CheeseChameleon2007 said:
Thanks for sharing that O.C., was an interesting read! Some very useful tips on how to facilitate Pink fairy armadillos in there, its great! Hopefully in the future more successful attempts of putting animals like this one and hopefully more majorities of fossorial mammals will be kept in captivity.
On a side note, only on the second page, I had no Idea that these animals were kept at the Brookfield zoo! Thats interesting.
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I highly doubt Brookfield keeps them now. When was this dated?
 
CheeseChameleon2007 said:
Thanks for sharing that O.C., was an interesting read! Some very useful tips on how to facilitate Pink fairy armadillos in there, its great! Hopefully in the future more successful attempts of putting animals like this one and hopefully more majorities of fossorial mammals will be kept in captivity.
On a side note, only on the second page, I had no Idea that these animals were kept at the Brookfield zoo! Thats interesting.
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Again, we don't really know if there is a need for the pink fairy armadillo to be kept ex-situ as it is a data deficient species.

As the paper states the species has never been kept for more than 4 years in captivity so it could perhaps be unsuited.

I think it could be a situation similar to the tarsiers in that they would suffer in public display in zoos due to experiencing high stress levels from this (so perhaps could only be kept off view successfully).

Yes, I think there have been more than a few zoos who tried to keep this animal like Brookfield zoo.
 
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Onychorhynchus coronatus said:
Again, we don't really know if there is a need for the pink fairy armadillo to be kept ex-situ as it is a data deficient species and as the paper states the species has never been kept for more than 4 years in captivity so it could perhaps be unsuited.

Yes, I think there have been more than a few zoos who tried to keep this animal like Brookfield zoo.
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Well, of course, I mean many species don't need to be kept in zoos, I'm just saying that It would be a cool species to see. ;) And yes, a few other zoos were mentioned in that article as well.
 
CheeseChameleon2007 said:
Well, of course, I mean many species don't need to be kept in zoos, I'm just saying that It would be a cool species to see. ;) And yes, a few other zoos were mentioned in that article as well.
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I agree, but I'd prefer to see a pink fairy armadillo, rather than one of the 'Least Concern' species I've seen many times. I must admit that I get confused about the classification system used for conservation. Some species are listed as 'Critically Endangered', while they have a wild population of over 100,000. Others are listed as 'Least Concern', even though they are only known from a few specimens. Surely they should at least be classified as 'Data Deficient'.
 
The buff-breasted buttonquail is most certainly still alive.
It's also not on the list I don't think?
 
Eight new species have now been added to the Search for Lost Species official list, as replacements for the eight species that have been rediscovered. The new species are:

- Fat catfish Rhizosomichthys totae - last seen in 1957 in Colombia
- Togo mouse Leimacomys buettneri - last seen in 1890 in Togo/Ghana
- Dwarf hutia Mesocapromys nanus - last seen in 1937 in Cuba
- South Island kokako Callaeas cinereus - last seen in 2007 in New Zealand
- Blanco blind salamander Eurycea robusta - last seen in 1951 in Texas
- Fagilde's trapdoor spider Nemesia berlandi - last seen before 1931 in Portugal
- Big puma fungus Austroomphaliaster nahuelbutensis - last seen in 1988 in South America
- Pernambuco holly Ilex sapiiformis - last seen in 1838 in Brazil

The full list can be found in the link below:
Re:wild's Search for Lost Species
 
As well as the eight new species, there are some other things of note regarding older species on the list.

Firstly, not mentioned in this thread, the Sierra Leone crab Afrithelphusa leonensis was rediscovered in July 2021 having not been seen in 66 years. The expedition also rediscovered Afzelius' crab Afrithelphusa afzelii that had not been seen for 225 years and discovered two species of crab new to science. The discovery is talked about in the link below:
In Sierra Leone, two colorful land crabs rediscovered, two new species found

Also, the link to the full list in my previous post talks about the Pondicherry shark that was supposedly rediscovered by Forrest Galante in Animal Planet's 'Extinct or Alive' programme. No molecular evidence was provided and the pictures apparently show a different species, the spot-tail shark. As a result, the Pondicherry shark remains on the list.
 
Chlidonias said:
Not necessarily. Just because a small tortoise is found on one island doesn't cancel out the possibility that it is actually from one of the other islands, either through human or natural means. I'm not saying it isn't the "extinct" species of course, and I certainly hope that it is, but ideally I'd want to see some genetic confirmation.
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I haven't seen any update on this elsewhere on the forum, so I will put it here.

The Fernandina giant tortoise captured in 2019 has had its genome sequenced. It was compared to the only other known specimen as well as to specimens of the twelve living giant tortoise species and the extinct Pinta Island tortoise. It has been found that the new tortoise matches the old Fernandina specimen and both of these are genetically distinct from all the other giant tortoises.

More information can be found in the article below:
https://phys.org/news/2022-06-fantastic-giant-tortoise-believed-extinct.html
 
Jurek7 said:
Great news! I feel that the giant tortoise, and some other missing species, can be very difficult to find for a man, but trained dogs would much easier sniff them. With amount of money spent on conservation in Galapagos, searching the island with dogs should be possible.
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They use(d) specially trained scent dogs to locate Kakapo in New Zealand, so it should be possible to find tortoises in the Galapagos also.
 
One of the lost plants from the list has been rediscovered - the Pernambuco holly Ilex sapiiformis has been found, with two male and two female trees found in a forest fragment near a sugarcane plantation in the metropolitan region of the city of Recife. The tree was last seen when it was first described, in 1838.

The researchers plan to search for more trees, try to protect the area the known trees are living in and collect seeds for germination, but say these efforts will be costly.

More information can be found in the link below:
‘Lost’ Brazilian holly tree species found again after nearly 200 years
 
Another lost species has been rediscovered - the Fagilde's trapdoor spider Nemesia berlandi. The spider was identified by DNA recovered from the leg of a spider found in the Portuguese village it was named after. The last time it was seen was when it was discovered in 1931.

Information about the rediscovery of the spider can be read below:
Lost tap-dancing spider rediscovered barricaded in a burrow in a small Portuguese town after 92 years

This is the first rediscovered species from the list from Europe, and is the twelfth confirmed rediscovery from the combined lists:
  • Jackson's climbing salamander (Guatemala)
  • Wallace's giant bee (Indonesia)
  • Velvet pitcher plant (Indonesia)
  • Silver-backed chevrotain (Vietnam)
  • Somali sengi (Djibouti)
  • Voeltzkow's chameleon (Madagascar)
  • Fernandina giant tortoise (Galapagos)
  • Sierra Leone crab (Sierra Leone)
  • Pernambuco holly (Brazil)
  • Attenborough's long-beaked echidna (Indonesia)
  • De Winton's golden mole (South Africa)
  • Fagilde's trapdoor spider (Portugal)
And another rediscovery may be about to happen - photographs of a flying squirrel recently taken in the Namdapha National Park in India may show a Namdapha flying squirrel, but eDNA analysis will probably have to be used to determine whether it is this species or the similar red giant flying squirrel.

More information about the squirrel, including the photographs, can be seen here:
This flying squirrel is still lost to science, but maybe not for much longer
 
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