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Chiloglanis modjensis
Shabelle suckermouth catfish
The Shabelle suckermouth catfish (Chiloglanis modjensis) is known only from a single locality within the Shabelle River drainage of northeastern Ethiopia.
Status Data Deficient on the IUCN Red List Restriction tier 4, a single named site Class Actinopterygii Realm Afrotropical Locality Shabelle River As IUCN records it Chiloglanis modjensis Boulenger, 1904
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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