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Ancylocranium ionidesi
Kilwa sharp-snouted worm lizard
The Kilwa sharp-snouted worm lizard (Ancylocranium ionidesi) is known only from a few localities in southeastern Tanzania, including the Litipo Forest Reserve.
Status Data Deficient on the IUCN Red List Restriction tier 2, restricted, extent unclear Class Reptilia Realm Afrotropical Locality The East African coastal forests As IUCN records it Ancylocranium ionidesi Loveridge, 1955 This species is one of 3,062 in a list of vertebrates the IUCN Red List records as Data Deficient or has never assessed, ranked by how narrowly restricted the published record says they are. The sentence above is the evidence the tier was read from, quoted from Matthew Richardson, Threatened and Recently Extinct Vertebrates of the World (2023).
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