Rediscovered Species 2021

[vogelcommando]

Rediscovering of the Bornean Rajah scop owl :

Rare Owl With Bright Orange Eyes Seen for the First Time in More Than 125 Years | At the Smithsonian | Smithsonian Magazine

 

[vogelcommando]

Rediscovering the Threeridge mussel - an North American freshwater mussel species :

Rediscovery and genetic confirmation of the Threeridge Mussel, Amblema plicata (Say, 1817) (Bivalvia, Unionidae), in the Choctawhatchee River, Florida, USA

 

[CaliHans]

Rediscovering the Threeridge mussel - an North American freshwater mussel species :

Rediscovery and genetic confirmation of the Threeridge Mussel, Amblema plicata (Say, 1817) (Bivalvia, Unionidae), in the Choctawhatchee River, Florida, USA

This is just a local rediscovery. Amblema plicata is one of the most widespread mussels in the eastern US.
NatureServe Explorer 2.0

 

[CheeseChameleon1945]

This is just a local rediscovery. Amblema plicata is one of the most widespread mussels in the eastern US.
NatureServe Explorer 2.0

Beat me to it!

 

[vogelcommando]

Rediscovering of the Urich's tyrannulet :

FOUND: Expedition in Venezuela rediscovers ‘little tiny Shrek’ after 15 years hiding in cloud forest

 

[birdsandbats]

Rediscovery of the Dumbea River Pipefish: The Rediscovery of a Lost Fish on iNaturalist · iNaturalist

 

[vogelcommando]

Rediscovery of the Gould's mouse :

Thought to be extinct for more than a century, Gould's mouse is back

 

[Chlidonias]

Rediscovery of the Gould's mouse :

Thought to be extinct for more than a century, Gould's mouse is back

It's not exactly a rediscovery of Gould's Mouse - they have just lumped the Shark Bay Mouse (which was already known to exist) into the otherwise-extinct Gould's Mouse.

 

[joe99]

The cold cases of two lost lizards in Ecuador have finally been cracked Two critically endangered lizards rediscovered, with the Orcés Blue Whiptail and the Climbing Whorltail Iguana, and sadly still very much at risk from habitat clearing

 

[vogelcommando]

The Tentacled butterfly ray rediscovered :

https://www.cambridge.org/core/serv...ray_gymnura_tentaculata_in_iranian_waters.pdf

 

[Thomas]

Two Rediscovered Species
1. Buru Babirusa (although the news article for it is in positive news).
Camera trap cameo for Buru Island babirusa last seen 26 years ago
2. Another of the top 25 lost species has been found the Sierra Leone Crab.
Colorful 'Lost' Crab Rediscovered After 66 Years

 

[WalkingAgnatha]

2. Another of the top 25 lost species has been found the Sierra Leone Crab.
Colorful 'Lost' Crab Rediscovered After 66 Years

Actually three rediscovered species, as the article mentions they rediscovered another crab species: Afzelius’s crabs (Afrithelphusa afzelii).

 

[joe99]

Man 2021 is shaping up to be good for rediscovered species

 

[Smaggledagle]

New genus of Australian thrips that hasn't been seen since the early 1900s is rediscovered with a new species.

Eurynothrips Bagnall (Thysanoptera, Phlaeothripinae): a rare and long-lost Australian genus, with one new gall-inducing species | Zootaxa

 

[vogelcommando]

Rediscovering of a crab-species from Taiwan :

Rediscovery of Orientotlos iishibai Sakai, 1980 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Leucosiidae) in Taiwan

 

[vogelcommando]

The Chapman's pygmy chameleon was already rediscovered 2016 but it's rediscovery was published just now :

Rare pygmy chameleon, lost to science, found in dwindling Malawi forest

 

[Smaggledagle]

Rediscovery of a bush cricket (Liara (Unalianus) heteracanthus) from India that hasn't been seen since 1891.

Rediscovery of Liara ( Unalianus ) heteracanthus (Redtenbacher, 1891) (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Conocephalinae: Agraeciini) from India with notes on its distribution | Zootaxa

 

[vogelcommando]

Local rediscovery of the New Holland mouse on Tasmania :

Tiny native mouse rediscovered in Tasmania - Australian Associated Press

 

[vogelcommando]

Rediscovering the Montane skink in Mozambique :

One sentence in a book leads researchers to a species not seen in over 100 years

 

[carl the birder]

the black brownd babbler an bird lost for 172 years until this year. has now been filmed for the first time ever on the indoesian part of borneo