The gloomy tube-nosed bat (''Murina tenebrosa'') is a species of
vesper bat in the family
Vespertilionidae. It is only known by the
holotype, an old female, collected on
Tsushima Island in 1962. It might be possibly extinct as Tsushima is badly deforested and surveys to rediscover this species failed. Due to its imperiled status, it is identified by the
Alliance for Zero Extinction
Formed in 2000 and launched globally in 2005, the Alliance for Zero Extinction (AZE) comprises 100 non-governmental biodiversity conservation organizations working to prevent species extinctions by identifying and safeguarding sites where species ...
as a species in danger of imminent
extinction.
References
Murininae
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
Mammals described in 1970
Bats of Asia
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