Animals With Only One Example

[chessteruk]

In my local museum there are trays of flies and beetles. In some cases only one example is recorded. Is there a word to describe an animal, for which there is only one known example?

[Sam1960]

unique ?

[Svejk]

Soon to be extinct?

[scorpiojo]

Endangered?

[naomi24]

Lonely?

[scorpiojo]

:)

[Mamyalynne]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monospecificity


Gets near but maybe not quite near enough.

[chessteruk]

That will do for me Mamyalynne, thank you.

[Mamyalynne]

Glad if it helped.