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Synodontis vaillanti
Vaillant's squeaker catfish
Vaillant's squeaker catfish (Synodontis vaillanti) is known only from its original collection in the late nineteenth century from the upper Oubangui River drainage.
Status Data Deficient on the IUCN Red List Restriction tier 5, type locality or a single collection Class Actinopterygii Realm Afrotropical Locality Oubangui River As IUCN records it Synodontis vaillanti Boulenger, 1897 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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