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Phractura bovei
Bove's whiptailed catfish
Bove's whiptailed catfish (Phractura bovei) is known only from its original collection from a single locality within the lower Congo River in the late nineteenth century.
Status Data Deficient on the IUCN Red List Restriction tier 5, type locality or a single collection Class Actinopterygii Realm Afrotropical Locality The lower Congo As IUCN records it Phractura bovei (Perugia, 1892) 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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