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Graphiurus johnstoni
Johnston's African dormouse
Johnston's African dormouse (Graphiurus johnstoni) is confined to the savanna woodlands of southern Malawi and possibly adjacent areas of Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Status Data Deficient on the IUCN Red List Restriction tier 2, restricted, extent unclear Class Mammalia Realm Afrotropical Locality not specified in the source As IUCN records it Graphiurus johnstoni (Thomas, 1898) 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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