It is a small insectivorous bat which weighs between 3 to 4.5 grams with a forearm length of between 30 and 33 millimeters. The Christmas Island Pipistrelle, scientifically called Pipistrellus murrayi, is a bat species representing an endemic taxon on Australia's Christmas Island. Endemic to Christmas Island, the pipistrelle was a tiny (3.5 gram) insect-eating bat. A Bat's End: The Christmas Island Pipistrelle and Extinction in Australia.

Christmas Island forest skink ( Emoia nativitatis ) – the last known individual died in 2014, making the forest skink the first native Australian reptile to go extinct since European colonisation. The population of this species rapidly declined from being common and widespread in the 1980s to between four and 20 animals in January 2009. The Christmas Island Pipistrelle (Pipistrellus murrayi) was a species of bat in the Vespertilionidae family.Biologists believe the bat became extinct on 27 August 2009.. The official description describes A Bat’s End as ‘a compelling forensic examination of the circumstances and players surrounding the extinction of the Christmas Island pipistrelle’. It was a small bat (it weighed 3 to 4.5 grams or 0.11 to 0.16 ounces), and lived only on Christmas Island, Australia. The Christmas Island pipistrelle, pictured, is now extinct. Link/Page Citation In August 2009 the last tiny microbat endemic to Christmas Island went extinct, despite the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act of 1999 and decades of reports warning of this impending disaster. This is an understatement. Endemic to Christmas Island, the pipistrelle was a tiny (3.5 gram) insect-eating bat. A Bat's End: The Christmas Island Pipistrelle and Extinction in Australia. It was first described in 1900, when numbers were widespread and abundant. Link/Page Citation In August 2009 the last tiny microbat endemic to Christmas Island went extinct, despite the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act of 1999 and decades of reports warning of this impending disaster. In 2008 there were only about 20 bats left and scientists thought that they could become extinct during 2009. Christmas Island pipistrelle (Pipistrellus murrayi) – this small bat was last seen in 2009. Cumulative tally of Australian extinctions since 1788. It was first described in 1900, when numbers were widespread and abundant. Established in 1964, the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species has evolved to become the world’s most comprehensive information source on the global conservation status of animal, fungi and plant species. Following is a list of Australian animal extinctions from the arrival of the first European colonists in 1788 (before the Aboriginal and prehistory extinctions) until the present. The Christmas Island Pipistrelle is one of a few species that went extinct in Australia last year. Facts Summary: The Christmas Island Pipistrelle (Pipistrellus murrayi) is a species of concern belonging in the species group "mammals" and found in the following area(s): Indian Ocean (Christmas Island).This species is also known by the following name(s): Pipistrellus tenuis ssp. There are 24 birds (1 from the mainland), 7 frogs, and 27 mammal species or subspecies strongly believed to have become extinct in Australia since European settlement. It is listed as a Critically endangered species. It is a scathing overview of the many failures of multiple organizations to take the plight of the pipistrelle seriously. In … Christmas Island Pipistrelle: Extinct. The losses are continuing: consistent with that rate, one Australian endemic mammal species, the Christmas Island pipistrelle, Pipistrellus murrayi, became extinct in 2009 , and another, the Bramble Cay melomys, became extinct some time in the period of 2006–2014. Christmas Island Pipistrelle is a very small bat that only lives on Christmas Island. The Christmas Island pipistrelle, pictured, is now extinct. Continuing this trend, in the past decade, three Australian species have become extinct – the Christmas Island forest skink, Christmas Island pipistrelle and Bramble Cay melomys – and two others became extinct in the wild. Its subject, the Christmas Island pipistrelle was a small bat, an Australian species whose last individual died in 2009. Photograph: Lindy Lumsden G lobal warming wiped out the Bramble Cay melomys – the first mammalian extinction in … Christmas Island in Australia is home to a number of unique species, but more and more of them are dying out, including a tiny bat called a pipistrelle. The new update of The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ (version 2017-2) declares the Christmas Island Pipistrelle (Pipistrellus murrayi) – a bat species endemic to Australia’s Christmas Island – as Extinct.