Christmas Island Pipistrelle (2009)
The final nail in the coffin was placed when the Red List of Threatened Species declared that the bat species found only in Australia the Christmas Island Pipistrelle went instinct.
Source: theinvertedperspective
“It’s complicated to decide when a species definitely has gone extinct,” says Craig Hilton-Taylor, head of the IUCN’s Red List Unit. He goes on to say that it has not been seen since 2009 and has a very distinctive call that has not been heard for years.