Cylindraspis triserrata

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	TESTUDINES	TESTUDINIDAE

Scientific Name:	Cylindraspis triserrata
Species Authority:	(Günther, 1873)
Synonym/s:	Testudo gadowi Van Denburgh, 1914 Testudo guentheri Gadow, 1894 Testudo leptocnemis Günther, 1875 Testudo microtympanum Boulenger, 1891 Testudo schweigeri Gray, 1830 Testudo triserrata Günther, 1873

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria:

Extinct ver 2.3

Year Assessed:

1996

Annotations:

Needs updating

Assessor/s:

World Conservation Monitoring Centre

Reviewer/s:

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

History:

1994

–

Extinct (Groombridge 1994)

Geographic Range [top]

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

Population [top]

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

Population:

It has not been recorded since the early eighteenth century.

Habitat and Ecology [top]

Systems:	Terrestrial

Systems:

Terrestrial

Threats [top]

Major Threat(s):	Hunting pressures from humans and introduced predators and competitive species have been blamed for the extinction of this species.

Major Threat(s):

Hunting pressures from humans and introduced predators and competitive species have 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. Cylindraspis triserrata. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 10 February 2012.
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