Rediscovered Species 2021

[Thomas]

To start off the new year of recovery of 2021, the first rediscovered animal is found in my home state of California in Santa Catalina Island which I plan to go to soon, after not being seen for 15 years, elusive and endemic Santa Catalina Island Shrew (subspecies of Ornate Shrew) has been rediscovered caught by camera traps set by scientists.

Feared Extinct Catalina Island Shrew Caught on Camera by Researchers

 

[CheeseChameleon1945]

To start off the new year of recovery of 2021, the first rediscovered animal is found in my home state of California in Santa Catalina Island which I plan to go to soon, after not being seen for 15 years, elusive and endemic Santa Catalina Island Shrew (subspecies of Ornate Shrew) has been rediscovered caught by camera traps set by scientists.

Feared Extinct Catalina Island Shrew Caught on Camera by Researchers

No word on the Tule Shrew being Rediscovered? It is listed as possibly extinct, also a subspecies of the Ornate shrew. Confined to the Baja california peninsula, Hasn't been rediscovered since 1905.
Anyway, Super cool! If you have a camera trap maybe you could catch one!

 

[vogelcommando]

- Pinatubo volcano mouse rediscovered in the Philippines :

https://phys.org/news/2021-01-redis...C-8axYSwM58JgQuNPTI-WLDM0qmGHl1pTN2dquFIFcZb0

 

[CheeseChameleon1945]

- Pinatubo volcano mouse rediscovered in the Philippines :

https://phys.org/news/2021-01-redis...C-8axYSwM58JgQuNPTI-WLDM0qmGHl1pTN2dquFIFcZb0

That's a great rediscovery! Glad the population is in check.

 

[Thomas]

An article of the rediscovery of the Short-tailed Rain Crayfish in Tasmania.
Extinct native species has been rediscovered

 

[vogelcommando]

Rediscovery of a Kukri snake from South-east Asia :

Rediscovery and distribution extension of the rare Kukri Snake, Oligodon hamptoni Boulenger, 1918 (Reptilia, Serpentes, Colubridae), with the first record of this species from China

 

[CheeseChameleon1945]

Beautifully patterned species!

 

[carl the birder]

black browed babbler has bean rediscoverd on borneo after 180 years. the discovery was made in 2020 but it was only made publick now
Black-browed babbler found in Borneo 180 years after last sighting
it was prior to this it was only now from one speciem taken in 1850

 

[Westcoastperson]

A species of bee has been rediscovered in Australia with three different populations
Rare Australian bee rediscovered after nearly a century | Live Science.

 

[vogelcommando]

Blue-bellied stream frog rediscovered on the Philippines :

One-hit wonder frog makes a comeback in the southern Philippines

 

[vogelcommando]

Southern purple-spotted gudgeon rediscovered :

Meet the 'zombie' fish: Back from the brink, if not the dead

 

[vogelcommando]

Cloaked bee rediscovered in Australia :

Phantom of the forest: after 100 years in hiding, I rediscovered the rare cloaked bee in Australia

 

[CheeseChameleon1945]

Southern purple-spotted gudgeon rediscovered :

Meet the 'zombie' fish: Back from the brink, if not the dead

This Species was never declared fully Extinct, Just locally extinct in some areas of South Australia. And the whole "Zombie fish" thing is just cringy.

 

[Smaggledagle]

Rediscovery of a species of shrimp in the genus Odontozona native to a marine cave in the Mediterranean Sea, off the coast of southern France. The species was last seen in 1990.

Rediscovery of the rare Mediterranean marine cave stenopodid shrimp Odontozona addaia Pretus, 1990, 30 years after its original description (Crustacea: Decapoda: Stenopodidea) | CHEVALDONNÉ | Zootaxa

 

[Onychorhynchus coronatus]

This Species was never declared fully Extinct, Just locally extinct in some areas of South Australia. And the whole "Zombie fish" thing is just cringy.

Weird how they went with the "zombie fish" thing.

I thought we already had a decent term for species that were thought extinct and then rediscovered as "Lazarus species".

Maybe the "zombie" thing has increased attention for the Southern purple-spotted gudgeon in the media though ?

 

[CheeseChameleon1945]

Weird how they went with the "zombie fish" thing.

I thought we already had a decent term for species that were thought extinct and then rediscovered as "Lazarus species".

Maybe the "zombie" thing has increased attention for the Southern purple-spotted gudgeon in the media though ?

I think the latter was probably true. "Lazarus species" probably wouldn't draw in as many people to click on the article. I would though!

 

[Onychorhynchus coronatus]

I think the latter was probably true. "Lazarus species" probably wouldn't draw in as many people to click on the article. I would though!

Yeah, you are right I think, I suppose it was a term designed to be a bit of a click bait draw.

 

[vogelcommando]

Rediscovering the Cupola gecko in New Zealand :

Cupola gecko population discovered more than 50 years after first sighting

 

[vogelcommando]

Brazilians sand octopus ( with nice video-clip ) :

Found, Then Lost, Then Found Again: Scientists Have Rediscovered the Sand Octopus | Hakai Magazine

 

[Smaggledagle]

Rediscovery of a species of snake in the genus Rhadinella native to Mexico. The species has not been seen since 1969.

The role of Indigenous and Community Conservation Areas in herpetofauna conservation: a preliminary list for Santa Cruz Tepetotutla, Oaxaca Mexico