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Synodontis robertsi
Roberts' squeaker catfish
Roberts' squeaker catfish (Synodontis robertsi) is a type of upside-down catfish known only from specimens collected in the Lukenie River, east-central Democratic Republic of Congo, in 1974.
Status Data Deficient on the IUCN Red List Restriction tier 2, restricted, extent unclear Class Actinopterygii Realm Afrotropical Locality Lukenie River As IUCN records it Synodontis robertsi Poll, 1974 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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