Rediscovered species 2023

[vogelcommando]

New Zealand skink rediscovered - possible even a complete new species ! :

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national...cu24STVCFemXRA9hPdQAGPVIw1EPUGsrvvmELSekDj3yI

 

[vogelcommando]

Rediscovery of a Rove beetle in India :

Rove beetle species, endemic to Western Ghats, ‘rediscovered’ after 120 years

 

[vogelcommando]

Rediscovery of an Harlequin toad in Venezuela :

https://www.crwild.com/_files/ugd/e..._zALU1elCSo614li_GDoZWha2Os0jpc3GCvcyJxtorxa4

 

[vogelcommando]

Local rediscovery of a moth-species on Cyprus :

Rediscovery of Clarina syriaca (Lederer, 1855) (Lepidoptera, Sphingidae, Macroglossinae) in Cyprus after 70 years; with notes on its biology and early life history from the Levant

 

[Dassie rat]

A songbird called the dusky tetraka has been found for the first time since 1999: Found: Mysterious songbird rediscovered in Madagascar after eluding scientists for 24 years - BirdLife International. I heard about this on a news bulletin on the BBC World Service at about 1 a.m. today

 

[Smaggledagle]

Rediscovery of the giant lacewing from the eastern United States which has not been seen since around the 1950s found on the side of a Walmart in Arkansas in 2012.

Giant Jurassic-era insect rediscovered outside Walmart in Arkansas

 

[vogelcommando]

Rediscovery of the Mindanao treeshrew :

https://www.esquiremag.ph/long-read...yTmDnly00zn9zkkA0vsyzV85MKKfI5zF1BOiYpAsHPTzw

 

[vogelcommando]

Tourist rediscovers a Pitta and a Cuscus :

British tourist spots three species thought to have been extinct

 

[Chlidonias]

Tourist rediscovers a Pitta and a Cuscus :

British tourist spots three species thought to have been extinct

Sounds like he's a little bit more than "a tourist"

 

[vogelcommando]

- Rediscovery of a Damselfly-species in Mexico :

The rediscovery of Heteragrion azulum Dunkle, 1989 with additional notes on the female (Odonata: Heteragrionidae) | Zootaxa

 

[Smaggledagle]

Rediscovery of a species of micro-snail from the Bahamas which has not been seen since the 1910s-1920s.

Once feared extinct, a tiny snail has been rediscovered at Southlands

 

[Swampy]

Rediscovery of a species of micro-snail from the Bahamas which has not been seen since the 1910s-1920s.

Once feared extinct, a tiny snail has been rediscovered at Southlands

Bermuda, not the Bahamas, excuse you

Incredible news after so long though, and great for raising hopes for other long-lost land molluscs!

 

[vogelcommando]

Rediscovery of a Glasfrog-species from Colombia :

Rediscovery and phylogenetic position of the glassfrog “Centrolene” acanthidiocephalum (Ruiz-Carranza and Lynch, 1989) (Anura: Centrolenidae)with the description of its advertisement call and comments on clutches and tadpoles | Zootaxa

 

[Smaggledagle]

Rediscovery of a species of ground beetle from California which was last recorded in the 1960s found on a former governor's ranch.

A beetle not seen since the 1960s was rediscovered on former California Governor Jerry Brown's ranch

 

[WalkingAgnatha]

Rediscovery of the Victorian Earless Dragon!!!

Victoria has rediscovered a dragon – how do we secure its future?

 

[Chlidonias]

Rediscovery of the Victorian Earless Dragon!!!

Victoria has rediscovered a dragon – how do we secure its future?

There's a little map of the former distribution in that article - it was found right on Melbourne's doorstep.

Here's an earlier article from a few years ago when they first started looking for the dragon (it had recently been split as a full species, and had thus become the first lizard thought to have become extinct [historically] on mainland Australia): Why we're not giving up the search for mainland Australia's 'first extinct lizard'

 

[WalkingAgnatha]

and had thus become the first lizard thought to have become extinct [historically] on mainland Australia)

Yeah I remember hearing it being the first officially extinct mainland reptile (don't remember where I got the idea of officially from, think it was listed as extinct on the Wikipedia page? not too sure), which is why I'm really glad that they're actually still out there, and from the jist of the article it seems there's already a captive-breeding programme which is great.

 

[Chlidonias]

Yeah I remember hearing it being the first officially extinct mainland reptile (don't remember where I got the idea of officially from, think it was listed as extinct on the Wikipedia page? not too sure), which is why I'm really glad that they're actually still out there, and from the jist of the article it seems there's already a captive-breeding programme which is great.

They are breeding them at Melbourne Zoo.

There's a video of their breeding room on this link: Victorian grassland earless dragon: New video released after rediscovery

 

[joe99]

The rediscovery of a lost bird sparked an effort to find more species in Madagascar
Big expedition to find about 30 or so lost species, with the Dusky Tetraka being found after not being seen for 24 years

 

[vogelcommando]

Rediscovery of the Strange big-eared bat in Brazil :

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-rel...VPKls_kssCCNrQRseI8pfHPuZpHqCX8ZOkq_wZHDbe_3k

and the complete article about the rediscovery :

Rediscovery of Histiotus alienus Thomas, 1916 a century after its description (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae): distribution extension and redescription