Search for Posts, Maps, and Topics
Eleven species that once inhabited MADAGASCAR are considered to be extinct, according to the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ website. The following fossa, hippo, and sloth lemur species are only known from subfossil records; the hippo species is also known thanks to local oral stories and accounts passed down each generation.
— Afrocyclops pauliani copepod crustacean (believed to be extinct since the 1950s)
— Delalande's (Snail-eating) Coua bird (since 1834)
— Giant Fossa mammal
— Large Sloth Lemur
— Madagascan Dwarf Hippopotamus
2 separate species: Hippopotamus guldbergi and Hippopotamus lemerlei)
— Madagascar Red-necked Grebe (since 1982)
— Pantanodon madagascariensis fish (since the early 2000s)
— Ptychochromis onilahy cichlid fish (since 1962)
— Ptychochromoides itasy cichlid fish (since the 1960s)
— Tropodiaptomus ctenopus copepod crustaceans.
Blog Content
● The author of this GeoFact of the Day Blog creates and curates original, authentic content and posts information based on established facts. Blog posts are not generated by artificial intelligence (AI) but published by the author.
● Content and image graphics from other sources are properly credited. Many geography facts are well-established and therefore do not belong to any one source, but occasionally a fact requires attribution/credit if it is unique and hard-to-find — for example, facts found from specific cultural, anthropological, geological, and scientific (etc.) research.
● I do not copy and paste from other websites. Therefore, all posts are original but may sometimes include information, links, and/or images from credited external sources. To use a GeoFact of the Day Blog image for your website or project, write a comment below a post — then I may approve your request.
● Feel free to offer comments, suggestions, and compliments on any post or page! You can be anonymous. Spam comments with non-relevant links will be deleted.
● Thanks for your loyal readership on the educational and reliable GeoFact of the Day Blog, in existence since 2008!
No comments:
Post a Comment