Paintings depict extinct species in their environment.
Sturdee's Pipistrelle
Range Pipistrellus studeei is known to have existed only on Hahajima Island in Bonin Islands, Japan. Some experts claim that this species never actually lived in Japan and its locality in Japan is just an error. As a result, the true distribution and origin of this animal is unknown. [edit] Population The previous population of this animal is unknown because only one specimen has been preserved, which is currently housed in the British Museum of Natural History. There have been no additional records of the Studee's Pipistrelle for over a century.
Range Pipistrellus studeei is known to have existed only on Hahajima Island in Bonin Islands, Japan. Some experts claim that this species never actually lived in Japan and its locality in Japan is just an error. As a result, the true distribution and origin of this animal is unknown. [edit] Population The previous population of this animal is unknown because only one specimen has been preserved, which is currently housed in the British Museum of Natural History. There have been no additional records of the Studee's Pipistrelle for over a century.
The Bali Tiger (Panthera tigris balica), harimau Bali in Indonesian, or referred to as samong in archaic Balinese language[2], was a subspecies of Tiger which was found solely on the small Indonesian island of Bali. This was one of three sub-species of tiger found in Indonesia, together with the Javan Tiger, which is also extinct, and the critically endangered Sumatran Tiger. It was the smallest of the Tiger subspecies.
The Great Auk, Pinguinus impennis, formerly of the genus Alca, was a large, flightless alcid that became extinct in the mid-19th century. It was the only modern species in the genus Pinguinus, a group of birds that formerly included one other species of flightless giant auk from the Atlantic Ocean region.
The last male purebred Columbia Basin Pygmy Rabbit, found only in Douglas County, Washington, died March 30, 2006, at the Oregon Zoo in Portland. The last purebred female died in 2008.[3] A crossbreeding program conducted by the Oregon Zoo, Washington State University and Northwest Trek is attempting to preserve the genetic line by breeding surviving females with the Idaho Pygmy Rabbit
The silver trout (Salvelinus agassizi) is an extinct trout species last seen in Dublin Pond, New Hampshire, in 1930, in a catch of six. The only properly confirmed occurrence of the fish was also in Dublin Pond. The silver trout was often a foot long[citation needed] and was said to actually be olive green in colour. It was an exceedingly rare fish, having become trapped (by changed drainage systems) in three New Hampshire lakes (Dublin Pond, Sunapee Lake[citation needed], and Christine Lake in Stark) that were left as isolated pockets by a retreating glacial front approximately 8,000 years before[citation needed], following the end of the last Ice Age. In the deep waters of these lakes, cut off from other species, the silver trout had no natural predators. However, by the late 19th century, as each area developed its own steady summer tourism[citation needed], recreational fishermen who sought to increase their catches began to introduce new fish species into these lakes, and these eventually overwhelmed the native silver trout. Yellow perch, which eat trout eggs, were particularly devastating. Very small numbers of silver trout may have survived into the 1950s[citation needed] and 1960s[citation needed], but they are extinct today.
The Navassa Curly-tailed Lizard (Leiocephalus eremitus) is an extinct lizard species from the family of Curly-tailed lizards (Leiocephalidae). It was endemic to Navassa Island and is only known by one single female which was described in 1868. A second specimen which was collected by Rollo Beck in 1917 was identified as Tiburon Curly-tailed Lizard (Leiocephalus melanochlorus) by herpetologist Richard Thomas in 1966.
The size of the holotype is given with 64 mm. The head and ventral scales are smooth. The dorsal scales are larger than the flank and the ventral scales. The dorsum is dark gray with nine dark transverse bars. The tail is pale with transverse bars on the basal half and uniformly dark dark gray to black on the ulterior half. Throat, breast, belly and the extremities are brown with pale tipped scales. Nothing is known about its biology. The reason for its extinction is unknown too but it might due to the alteration of its habitat.
The size of the holotype is given with 64 mm. The head and ventral scales are smooth. The dorsal scales are larger than the flank and the ventral scales. The dorsum is dark gray with nine dark transverse bars. The tail is pale with transverse bars on the basal half and uniformly dark dark gray to black on the ulterior half. Throat, breast, belly and the extremities are brown with pale tipped scales. Nothing is known about its biology. The reason for its extinction is unknown too but it might due to the alteration of its habitat.
The quagga (Equus quagga quagga) is an extinct subspecies of the Plains zebra,[2] which was once found in great numbers in South Africa's Cape Province and the southern part of the Orange Free State. It was distinguished from other zebras by having the usual vivid marks on the front part of the body only. In the mid-section, the stripes faded and the dark, inter-stripe spaces became wider, and the rear parts were a plain brown. The name comes from a Khoikhoi word for zebra and is onomatopoeic, being said to resemble the quagga's call. The only quagga to have ever been photographed alive was a mare at the Zoological Society of London's Zoo in Regent's Park in 1870