Search launched for 25 missing species

This news has been linked elsewhere on the forum, but it is again relevant to this project so I will repost here as well:

The Fernandina giant tortoise has been rediscovered in a remote corner of Fernandina 113 years after the type specimen was found. The female tortoise has been caught and moved to Santa Cruz, where it is living in a specially-constructed pen at a giant tortoise breeding centre.

The link to this news is included below:
Giant tortoise believed extinct for 100 years found in Galápagos
 
DesertRhino150 said:
This news has been linked elsewhere on the forum, but it is again relevant to this project so I will repost here as well:

The Fernandina giant tortoise has been rediscovered in a remote corner of Fernandina 113 years after the type specimen was found. The female tortoise has been caught and moved to Santa Cruz, where it is living in a specially-constructed pen at a giant tortoise breeding centre.

The link to this news is included below:
Giant tortoise believed extinct for 100 years found in Galápagos
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:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

Honesty I thought that was one of the less likely ones.
 
DesertRhino150 said:
This news has been linked elsewhere on the forum, but it is again relevant to this project so I will repost here as well:

The Fernandina giant tortoise has been rediscovered in a remote corner of Fernandina 113 years after the type specimen was found. The female tortoise has been caught and moved to Santa Cruz, where it is living in a specially-constructed pen at a giant tortoise breeding centre.

The link to this news is included below:
Giant tortoise believed extinct for 100 years found in Galápagos
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Well that's awkward for all the posts on the first page heavily criticizing this effort :p

~Thylo
 
What do you guys think of the supposed Wondiwoi Tree Kangaroo seen back in September? Apparentley the guy who described the Dingiso thinks it really is one.
 
ThylacineAlive said:
Well that's awkward for all the posts on the first page heavily criticizing this effort :p
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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.
 
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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Fingers and toes firmly crossed. Hopefully they find some more, too.

It's been a good couple of years for rediscoveries it seems.

~Thylo
 
I can't access to the link of the first post... so I don't know what are these 25 species. Is the Chinese paddlefish included? It should be, if not...
 
Kakapo said:
I can't access to the link of the first post... so I don't know what are these 25 species. Is the Chinese paddlefish included? It should be, if not...
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Here is the list. I have put an * after the species that have been found:

Jackson's Climbing Salamander*
Wallace's Giant Bee*
Fernandina Giant Tortoise*
Wondiwoi Tree Kangaroo*
Pondicherry Shark
Attenborough's Long-Beacked Echidna
Pink-Headed Duck
Namdapha Flying Squirrel
Wellington's Solitary Coral
Ilin Island Cloundrunner
De Winton's Golden Mole
New Zealand Greater Short-Tailed Bat
Sierra Leone Crab
Scarlet Harlequin Frog
Himalayan Quail
Velvet Pitcher Plant
Voeltzkow's Chameleon (why?)
Omiltemi Cottontail
Bullneck Seahorse
Syr Darys Shovelnose Sturgeon
Somali Sengi
Sinu Parakeet
Miss Waldron's Red Colobus
Zug's Monitor
Silver-Backed Chevrotain
 
Thanks a lot for this list! Sadly my beloved Chinese paddlefish is not in it :-( there is a shovelnose sturgeon but is not the same...
 
I think it's great that (possibly, if not probably) four of the twenty five species on the list have been rediscovered so far, and within the last year-and-a-half, too. Of course, further genetic testing is needed to confirm the tortoise's identity, but the salamander and bee are definite, and the kangaroo photographed is almost certainly the wondiwoi tree kangaroo.

Personally speaking, I'm optimistic that most of these species will be found alive. And this list doesn't even include some other notable rediscoveries in recent times, like the San Quintin kangaroo rat. And some of those species are fairly big animals, like the metre-long Namdapha flying squirrel.

I do wonder if, like the Top 10 Lost Frogs list, they will replace rediscovered species with new species that have yet to be rediscovered?
 
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ThylacineAlive said:
Well it's not one of the 25 but it is a third surprise potential rediscovery for the week:
'Extinct' Formosan clouded leopard sp... | Taiwan News

~Thylo
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While certainly not a confirmation, that is excellent new indeed that gives some hope. I can see clouded leopards being more likely to evade detection than other big cats given their more arboreal nature. Combined with the terrain of much of Taiwan, and I can certainly see a small population clinging on.
 
Of course, a lot rests on whether the findings by the recent felid taxonomic reassessment that indicated Formosan Clouded Leopard represented an introduced population of nominate and was genetically identical to said are valid :P
 
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