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Trimma caudipunctatum
Philippine Sea pygmy goby
The Philippine Sea pygmy goby (Trimma caudipunctatum) is known only from two specimens collected from the Ryukyu Islands and Palau along with a small number of obervations.
Status Data Deficient on the IUCN Red List Restriction tier 2, restricted, extent unclear Class Actinopterygii Realm Oceanic Locality Ryukyu Islands As IUCN records it Trimma caudipunctatum Suzuki & Senou, 2009
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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