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Lepidophyma dontomasi
Cerro Lachiguiri tropical night lizard
The Cerro Lachiguiri tropical night lizard (Lepidophyma dontomasi) is known only from its original collection in the 1940s from Cerro Lachiguiri in Oaxaca.
Status Data Deficient on the IUCN Red List Restriction tier 5, type locality or a single collection Class Reptilia Realm Neotropical Locality The Sierra Madre de Oaxaca As IUCN records it Lepidophyma dontomasi (Smith, 1942) 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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