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Twelve Australian animals have been newly listed as extinct, including the Christmas Island pipistrelle, desert bettong, Nullarbor barred bandicoot and the Capricorn rabbit-rat, raising the nationâs official share of the worldâs extinct mammals over 20 months from 34 per cent to 38 per cent.
All but one of the mammalian extinctions is historic, but the update to Australiaâs official list of extinct and threatened species cements the nationâs reputation as an international hotspot for wildlife loss.
The Christmas Island pipistrelle was officially added to the extinction list on Wednesday.
Credit:Lindy Lumsden.
The extinctions listed under the Environment Protection Biodiversity Conservation Act, updated on Wednesday, World Wildlife Day, now records the names of 34 Australian mammals wiped from the earth.
Extinct native bee back after 100 years
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Extinct native bee back after 100 years
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âExtinctâ native bee back after 100 years
Pets & Animals by David Mills
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Subscriber only A species of native bee not seen in nearly 100 years has been rediscovered after extensive searches along Australia s east coast. The last recorded sighting of Pharohylaeus lactiferus was in 1923, but Flinders University PhD candidate James Dorey collected six individual bees in three sites in Queensland - Atherton, Kuranda and Eungella - after sampling 225 individual locations. One of 202 species of masked bee in Australia, the black-bodied insects with distinctive white face markings are slightly smaller than the common European honeybee, and may have a thing for the colour red: they were discovered solely on Illawarra flame trees and firewheels.
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