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Microctenopoma lineatum
Nichols' climbing gourami
Nichols' climbing gourami (Microctenopoma lineatum) is known only from a few localities in the Central African Republic and northern Democratic Republic of Congo.
Status Data Deficient on the IUCN Red List Restriction tier 2, restricted, extent unclear Class Actinopterygii Realm Afrotropical Locality not specified in the source As IUCN records it Microctenopoma lineatum (Nichols, 1923) 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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