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    Safeguarding Singapore’s Natural Heritage (VIDEO)

    Dr. Wan Jusoh is championing the conservation of Singapore’s biodiversity, from studying flashing fireflies to piecing together snapshots of how ecosystems evolve over time.

    AsianScientist (Nov. 26, 2021) – Against a dark sky, tiny lights flicker in a rhythm, as if dancing to a melody. While not quite as intense as the flashing lights that enliven night parties, these bright patches come from fireflies.

    Such brilliant displays are a common sight in Singapore, which is home to about 10 different firefly species found flittering around mangrove forests in Pasir Ris Park and the country’s other nature reserves. But in March 2021, a team unveiled a surprising finding of a new firefly species named Luciola singapura—marking the first such discovery in the city-state in over a century.

    Led by Dr. Wan Faridah Akmal Jusoh, Research Fellow at the Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum (LKCNHM), the researchers found that L. singapura uniquely inhabits a freshwater swamp forest unlike the saltwater conditions of mangrove ecosystems.

    Safeguarding Singapore’s Natural Heritage (VIDEO) - Asian Scientist Magazine

    Here is the actual paper describing this species Molecular Systematics of the Firefly Genus Luciola (Coleoptera: Lampyridae: Luciolinae) with the Description of a New Species from Singapore
     
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    The people involved are apparently going to publish a paper next year summing up why they think the Corsican Wildcat is a "new species" because of supposed distinctive features. The article really doesn't say anything more than what has already been said by the group in previous articles over the last couple of years.

    The general scientific consensus of the Corsican cat is that it is an introduced feral population of domestic cats.
     
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    Ah okay, so probably just a population then. Apparently it was considered previous subspecies of the African wildcat according to Wikipedia.
    I looked up some photos and that just looks like someone's aunt's house cat to me.
     
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