Year Last Seen:

1985

Comments:

Thorough surveys of Lake Alaotra in 1989, and further surveys in 2004 and 2009 failed to find any evidence of the species. Multiple methods for determining the likelihood of extinction have used the sighting history of this species as a test dataset and each has …

Year Last Seen:

1834

Comments:

This species was endemic to Madagascar, but is now Extinct. It has not been reported since 1834 and likely succumbed to the complete destruction of its native forest.

Habitat:

It was a terrestrial species of primary rainforest (Collar and Stuart 1985).

Causes:

The complete deforestation …