Typhlops cariei

Taxonomy

Assessment Information

Geographic Range

Population

Habitat and Ecology

Threats

Bibliography

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
ANIMALIA	CHORDATA	REPTILIA	SQUAMATA	TYPHLOPIDAE

Scientific Name:	Typhlops cariei
Species Authority:	Hoffstetter, 1946

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria:

Extinct ver 2.3

Year Assessed:

1996

Annotations:

Needs updating

Assessor/s:

World Conservation Monitoring Centre

Justification:
Known only from Mauritius, this species has not been recorded since the 17th century.

History:

1994

–

Extinct (Groombridge 1994)

Geographic Range [top]

Range Description:	Typhlops cariei was known only from Mauritius.
Countries:	Regionally extinct: Mauritius

Population [top]

Population:	It was last recorded in the 17th century.

Population:

It was last recorded in the 17th century.

Habitat and Ecology [top]

Systems:	Terrestrial

Systems:

Terrestrial

Threats [top]

Major Threat(s):	The introduction of predatory species to the island has been blamed for the extinction of this species.

Major Threat(s):

The introduction of predatory species to the island has been blamed for the extinction of this species.

Bibliography [top]

	Baillie, J. and Groombridge, B. 1996. 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. International Union for Conservation of Nature, Gland, Switzerland. Groombridge, B. 1992. Global Biodiversity: Status of the Earth’s Living Resources. Report compiled by the World Conservation Monitoring Centre. Chapman and Hall, London. Groombridge, B. (ed.). 1994. 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

Baillie, J. and Groombridge, B. 1996. 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. International Union for Conservation of Nature, Gland, Switzerland.

Groombridge, B. 1992. Global Biodiversity: Status of the Earth’s Living Resources. Report compiled by the World Conservation Monitoring Centre. Chapman and Hall, London.

Groombridge, B. (ed.). 1994. 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

Citation:	World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1996. Typhlops cariei. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 10 February 2012.
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