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Conservation Attention: Very Low

The Chaco side-necked turtle is endemic to arid regions of the Gran Chaco of Argentina, Paraguay and Bolivia.

Conservation Attention: Low

The Chacoan peccary is a pig-like mammal with a long, flexible snout and a coat of grey brown bristly fur, and is the largest of the three living species of peccary.

Conservation Attention: Very Low

Chalchalero Viscacha Rat specialises in feeding on halophite plants (plants that are able to grow in high salt areas).

Conservation Attention: Low

Chapin’s Crombec is only known from three specimens collected in the 1940s on the Lendu Plateau, north-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

Conservation Attention: Very Low

Chapman’s pygmy chameleon is an incredibly small lizard that reaches a maximum length of only 6.2 cm!

Conservation Attention: Low

Charles Darwin’s frog is only known from Mount Harriet and Saddle Peak in the Andaman Islands of India.

Conservation Attention: Medium

The Critically Endangered Chinese alligator is the only species in its entire family found outside of the Americas. Its closest living relative is the famous American alligator.

Conservation Attention: Very Low

There are perhaps no more than 1,000 individuals of the Endangered Chinese crocodile lizard — which is found in southern China and northern Vietnam — remaining in the wild today.

Conservation Attention: Good

The Chinese giant salamander is the world’s largest amphibian, growing up to 1.8 metres long, with a large tail comprising almost 60% of the body length.

Conservation Attention: Low

Pangolins are the most trafficked mammals in the world, and the Chinese pangolin may be the most endangered of them all.

Conservation Attention: Medium

The Christmas Island Frigatebird is the rarest endemic seabird on Christmas Island, Australia.

Conservation Attention: Medium

Unlike other EDGE Coral species, C.caespitosa is relatively well documented as it is widespread throughout the Mediterranean Sea and can be locally abundant.

Conservation Attention: Low

Very little is known about Claire’s mouse lemur which is only found on Nosy Bé Island, Madagascar, in a very restricted and fragmented area, and are in decline due to habitat loss and degradation.

Conservation Attention: Very Low

This species has only recently been described and is only known from just one locality in the Anaikatti Hillis.

Conservation Attention: Very Low

Cochran’s least gecko is part of the infraorder of geckos which includes some of the smallest reptiles in the world, reaching around only 1.5 – 6 cm in length.

Conservation Attention: Very Low

Following its discovery in 1964, the Colombian dwarf gecko had not been seen again until a new population was recently discovered more than 100 km from the original location.

Conservation Attention: Low

The common guitarfish occurs from the north of Spain throughout the Mediterranean coast, towards the south on the west coast of the Atlantic down to Guinea Bissau and possibly Namibia. Despite this wide range, their populations have declined over the past decades.

Conservation Attention: Very Low

Contrary to its common name, the common splayfoot salamander has undergone a recent, catastrophic population decline and has not been seen since the 1980s.

Conservation Attention: Very Low

Only two records of this beautiful owl exist, both of which were of female birds – the male of the species is yet to be described.

Conservation Attention: Medium

Cophyla karenae is endemic to Madagascar, where it is only known from the Betampona Strict Nature Reserve.

Conservation Attention: Medium

Cophyla maharipeo is endemic to Madagascar and has only been found in an abbey garden in Joffreville in the Diana region.

Conservation Attention: Medium

Cophyla puellarum is endemic to Madagascar and is found only in the Montagne d’Ambre National Park.

Conservation Attention: Medium

Originally Coquerel’s giant mouse lemur was the only member of its genus Mirza, until the northern giant mouse lemur was described in 2005.

Conservation Attention: Good

Ctenella chagius is a member of the small Meandrinidae family and is found exclusively in the Chagos Archipelago, Mauritius and La Réunion in the Indian Ocean.