Uegitglanis zammaranoi

Taxonomy

Assessment Information

Geographic Range

Population

Habitat and Ecology

Threats

Conservation Actions

Bibliography

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
ANIMALIA	CHORDATA	ACTINOPTERYGII	SILURIFORMES	CLARIIDAE

Scientific Name:	Uegitglanis zammaranoi
Species Authority:	Gianferrari, 1923

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria:

Vulnerable D2 ver 3.1

Year Assessed:

2010

Assessor/s:

Getahun, A.

Reviewer/s:

Stiassny, M. & Brooks, E.

Justification:
This species is only known from a few localities in southern Somalia. Although there is no information currently available on threats to this species, any changes in its habitat quality could have a dramatic effect on the population and it is therefore assessed as Vulnerable.

History:

1996

–

Vulnerable

Geographic Range [top]

Range Description:	This species is known from a few localities in southern Somalia.
Countries:	Presence uncertain: Somalia
Range Map:	(click map to view full version)

Population [top]

Population:	No information available.
Population Trend:	Unknown

Habitat and Ecology [top]

Habitat and Ecology:	It is found in running water. The type series were collected in a pool associated with a spring, but the species is generally considered hypogean and is depigmented with no externally visible eyes.
Systems:	Freshwater

Threats [top]

Major Threat(s):	No information available.

Major Threat(s):

No information available.

Conservation Actions [top]

Conservation Actions:	No information available.

Conservation Actions:

No information available.

Bibliography [top]

	Pan-Africa freshwater assessment references. Currently, full citations for references used in the Pan-Africa biodiversity assessments are unavailable on the Red List web site. These will be added to the site in 2011. We apologise for any inconvenience this causes. Ercolini, A. Berti, R., Chelazzi, L. and Messana, G. 1982. Researches on the phreatobic fishes of Somalia: Acheivements and Prospects. Monit. Zool. Ital. 17: 219-241. IUCN. 2010. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (ver. 2010.3). Available at: http://www.iucnredlist.org. (Accessed: 2 September 2010). Romero, A. and Paulson, K.M. 2001. It's a Wonderful Hypogean Life: A Guide to the Troglomorphic Fishes of the World. Environmental Biology of Fishes 62: 13-41.

Pan-Africa freshwater assessment references. Currently, full citations for references used in the Pan-Africa biodiversity assessments are unavailable on the Red List web site. These will be added to the site in 2011. We apologise for any inconvenience this causes.

Ercolini, A. Berti, R., Chelazzi, L. and Messana, G. 1982. Researches on the phreatobic fishes of Somalia: Acheivements and Prospects. Monit. Zool. Ital. 17: 219-241.

IUCN. 2010. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (ver. 2010.3). Available at: http://www.iucnredlist.org. (Accessed: 2 September 2010).

Romero, A. and Paulson, K.M. 2001. It's a Wonderful Hypogean Life: A Guide to the Troglomorphic Fishes of the World. Environmental Biology of Fishes 62: 13-41.

Citation:	Getahun, A. 2010. Uegitglanis zammaranoi. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 09 February 2012.
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