Cylindraspis inepta

Threats

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Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
ANIMALIA	CHORDATA	REPTILIA	TESTUDINES	TESTUDINIDAE

Scientific Name:	Cylindraspis inepta
Species Authority:	(Gunther, 1873)
Synonym/s:	Testudo boutonii Günther, 1875 Testudo inepta Günther, 1873 Testudo leptocnemis Günther, 1875 Testudo sauzieri Gadow, 1894

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 early 18th century.

History:

1994

–

Extinct (IUCN)

Range Description:	Cylindraspis inepta was endemic to Mauritius.
Countries:	Regionally extinct: Mauritius

Population:	It has not been recorded since the early eighteenth century.

Population:

It has not been recorded since the early eighteenth century.

Systems:	Terrestrial

Systems:

Terrestrial

Major Threat(s):	Hunting pressures and possibly the introduction of predators and competitive species to the island may have resulted in the demise of this species.

Major Threat(s):

Hunting pressures and possibly the introduction of predators and competitive species to the island may have resulted in the demise of this species.

Citation:	World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1996. Cylindraspis inepta. In: IUCN 2009. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2009.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 10 February 2010.
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