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Gloomy Tube-nosed Bat
Murina tenebrosa Yoshiyuki, 1970
Source-backed taxonomic record
Accepted species in Catalogue of Life’s 11 September 2026 base release. This preserves the source classification and available supporting data; it is not a completed species monograph.
Open encyclopedia reference
The gloomy tube-nosed bat (Murina tenebrosa) is a species of vesper bat in the genus Murina. It is only known by the holotype, an old female, collected in an abandoned mine on Tsushima Island in 1962. There is a shortage of intact forests, and limited caves and mines available for roosting. Surveys to rediscover this species failed. Due to its imperiled status, it is identified by the Alliance for Zero Extinction as a species in danger of imminent extinction.
Wikipedia contributors, Gloomy tube-nosed bat; see linked history · CC BY-SA 4.0 . Plain-text lead excerpt, at most 180 words; no infobox or later sections Retrieved 2026-10-05T09:11:13.769621+00:00. This reference remains separate from the taxonomic record.
Identity & source status
- Scientific name
- Murina tenebrosa Yoshiyuki, 1970
- Name authority
- Yoshiyuki, 1970
- Common name
- Gloomy Tube-nosed Bat
- Rank
- species
- Accepted status
- accepted
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Mammalia
- Order
- Chiroptera
- Family
- Vespertilionidae
- Genus
- Murina
- Extinction status
- Recorded extant
Classification family tree
Nested taxonomic groups from the source. This is not a direct-ancestor chain, a dated evolutionary tree or a phylogenetic reconstruction.
- domainEukaryota (Chatton, 1925) Whittaker & Margulis, 1978
- kingdomAnimalia
- phylumChordata
- subphylumVertebrata
- infraphylumGnathostomata
- parvphylumOsteichthyes
- megaclassTetrapoda
- classMammalia Linnaeus, 1758
- subclassTheria Parker & Haswell, 1897
- infraclassEutheria Gill, 1872
- orderChiroptera Blumenbach, 1779
- suborderYangochiroptera Koopman, 1984
- superfamilyVespertilionoidea Gray, 1821
- familyVespertilionidae Gray, 1821
- subfamilyMurininae Miller, 1907
- genusMurina Gray, 1842
- speciesMurina tenebrosa Yoshiyuki, 1970
Close classified relatives
These entries share the source’s genus, Murina. They are not necessarily the closest relatives established by molecular evidence.
| Species | Classification | Source status |
|---|---|---|
| Beelzebub Tube-nosed BatMurina beelzebub Son, Furey & Csorba, 2011 | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Dusky Tube-nosed BatMurina fusca Sowerby, 1922 | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Guillén's Tube-nosed batMurina guilleni Soisook, Karapan, Satasook, Thong, Khan, Maryanto, Csorba, Furey, Aul & Bates, 2013 | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Hilgendorf's Tube-nosed BatMurina hilgendorfi (Peters, 1880) | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Hutton's Tube-nosed BatMurina huttonii (Peters, 1872) | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Taiwan Tube-nosed BatMurina puta Kishida, 1924 | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Dun Tube-nosed BatMurina recondita Kuo, Fang, Csorba & Lee, 2009 | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Ryukyu Tube-nosed BatMurina ryukyuana Maeda & Matsumura, 1998 | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Shuipu Tube-nosed BatMurina shuipuensis Eger & Lim, 2011 | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Ussuri Tube-nosed BatMurina ussuriensis Ognev, 1913 | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Ashy Tube-nosed BatMurina feae (Thomas, 1891) | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Lorelia's Tube-nosed BatMurina lorelieae Eger & Lim, 2011 | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
Documented distribution
Source distribution statements, not a complete range map. A listed locality is not necessarily a place of origin.
Source literature & publication evidence
References attached to this source record, including nomenclatural citations where supplied. This is a selected bibliography; abbreviated citations remain in the source’s form.
- https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=632174 Source fields: Taxon.tsv dwc:namePublishedIn, Taxon.tsv dcterms:references
Origins, evidence & remaining research
Name authority and publication references document nomenclature where the source supplies it. They do not establish evolutionary origins or the earliest fossil occurrence.
Specimen-level evidence, morphology, ecological research, phylogenetic studies, a comprehensive bibliography and a located literary passage have not yet been compiled for this record. A suitable sourced image remains to be added.
Dataset citation & attribution
This exact taxon in ChecklistBank · Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11
Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11; dataset 316321; doi:10.48580/dgz5n. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ . Retrieved 5 October 2026.
Stable key: col:44N3L. Classification follows source parent identifiers. English common names may vary by region.