Mali
A mammal known only from Mali is the Rupicolous Gerbil Dipodillus (or Gerbillus) rupicola (IRD).
The Mali Firefinch Lagonosticta virata (African Bird Club pdf file) is a near endemic bird, also occurring in eastern Senegal.
The Mali Carpet Viper Echis jogeri (Tomáš Mazuch) is an endemic reptile.
Amphibians
known
exclusively from Mali include the Mali Screeching Frog Tomopterna milletihorsini
(African
Amphibians Lifedesk) and the Bata Marsh Toad Bufo (or Amietophrynus) chudeaui (African
Amphibians Lifedesk).
Freshwater fish restricted to Mali include a killifish Aplocheilichthys
(or Micropanchax)
ehrichi (Killifish
of Western Africa) and an elephantfish Mormyrops oudoti
(p. 14 of IRD
pdf file).
Invertebrates unique to Mali include a katydid Conocephalus
meadowsae (OSF),
a potter wasp Cyrtolabulus
caputabnormis (p. 4 of Biologiezentrum
pdf
file), a
ground beetle Chlaenius
variolosus (p. 42 of Entomofauna
pdf file), a flower beetle Pseudalleucosma
ruteri (eol),
a longhorned beetle Niphotragulus
occidentalis
(Lamiaires
du Monde), an ant Crematogaster
longiceps (Antbase),
a
jumping spider Menemerus
legalli (Salticidae
of the World), the scorpions Butheoloides milloti
(p. 40 of Scorpion
Files pdf file) and Compsobuthus
tombouctou (UFPR
pdf file), and an isopod crustacean Magniezia (or Stenasellus) laticarpa (IJS
pdf file).
There are perhaps fourteen endemic vascular plant species including a
legume Gilletiodendron
glandulosum (Chris
Duvall), Acridocarpus
monodii (MNHN
pdf file), Elatine
fauquei (JSTOR),
Hibiscus
pseudohirtus (JSTOR),
Maerua de-waillyi
(JSTOR), Oldenlandia
sclerophylla (JSTOR), and eight screwpines:
Pandanus raynalii
(MNHN),
Pandanus cissei
(IPNI),
Pandanus echinops
(IPNI), Pandanus
farakoensis
(IPNI),
Pandanus laferrerei
(IPNI),
Pandanus malgrasii
(IPNI),
Pandanus muralis
(IPNI),
and Pandanus
sikassoensis (IPNI).
The Inner Niger Delta Flooded Savanna ecoregion (EoE)
is unique to Mali. For more information on the flora and
fauna of
Mali see the "Situation General de la Diversite Biologique au Mali" (PNUD
pdf file).