near-endemic

These include the near-endemic white-eyed prinia Prinia leontica (VU), the grey-winged robinchat Cossypha polioptera, lemon dove Columba larvata, Sharp's apalis Apalis sharpei, whitenecked rockfowl Picathartes gymnocephalus (VU) and Nimba flycatcher Melaenornis annamarulae (VU), A detailed account of birds in Liberian Nimba is given in Coston & Curry-Lindahl (1986).

Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve, Guinea and Côte d'Ivoire 2008

Although there are few endemic or near-endemic large mammals in the ecoregion, it does harbor the few remaining populations of the mountain gorilla (Gorilla gorilla beringei), one of the most critically threatened large mammals in Africa.

Albertine Rift montane forests 2009

Seventy-one of the endemic or near-endemic vertebrates are threatened by extinction (8 critical, 27 endangered, 36 vulnerable), with an additional seven wide ranging threatened species.

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Now we have a country with near-endemic poverty, shoddy health infrastructure, antiquated health policies, and a very low overall level of literacy, including health literacy.

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There are also a number of near-endemic amphibians, species found also on lower hills near Yaoundé (and some on Mt Cameroon): Leptodactylodon ornatus, Hyperolius koehleri, H. kuligae, Kassina decorata, Leptopelis modestus, Werneria mertensi, Wolterstorffina parvipalmata.

Cameroonian Highlands forests 2009

One, the critically endangered Salim Ali fruit bat, is a near-endemic species (Table 1).

South Deccan Plateau dry deciduous forests 2008

This ecoregion contains a higher number of mammals, although only the orange mouse (Mus orangiae) is restricted to the ecoregion, and the rough-haired golden mole (Chrysospalax villosa) is near-endemic.

Highveld grasslands 2008

The bird fauna consists of about 260 species, of which two are near-endemic species (Table 2).

South Deccan Plateau dry deciduous forests 2008

Only one near-endemic mammal species is found here, the dormouse (Graphiurus olga).

West Saharan montane xeric woodlands 2008

The Madagascar plover (Charadrius thoracicus) is near-endemic to this ecoregion, but is also found along the west coast into the Succulent Woodlands and the Dry Deciduous Forest ecoregions, while the Thamnornis warbler (Thamnornis chloropetoides) extends only slightly outside this ecoregion into the Succulent Woodlands ecoregion.

Madagascar spiny thickets 2008