One of Conservation International's top 20 surprising species

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Conservation International is celebrating 20 years of its rapid assessment programme, which sends field scientists into remote habitats and has discovered more than 1,300 new species. To mark the anniversary, the organisation has named the top 20 'stars' of the programme's history, that scientists say are 'some of the most biologically surprising, unique, or threatened discoveries

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Uroplatus phantasticus (叶尾壁虎), the satanic leaf-tailed gecko, was observed on an RAP survey in the Mantadia-Zahamena corridor of Madagascar in 1998. This gecko is the smallest of 12 species of bizarre-looking leaf-tailed geckos that are nocturnal, arboreal and endemic to Madagascar. They are only found in primary, undisturbed forests, so their populations are very sensitive to habitat destruction. In 2004, WWF listed all of the uroplatus species on their 'top 10 most wanted species list' of animals threatened by illegal wildlife trade
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感觉好像看过疑似中文版的

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   有点看不懂啊....