SOUTH Sudan
Mammals found nowhere else include Hoogstral's
Striped Grass Mouse (ZFMK
pdf file) and a recently described African
climbing mouse Dendromus
ruppi (p. 7 of ZFMK
pdf file).
Sometimes considered full species are the Mongalla Gazelle (postconflict.unep.ch)
and the Nile Sitatunga Tragelaphus
larkenii (Google
Books).
Reptiles exclusive to South
Sudan include the Torit
Gracile Blind Snake Letheobia
toritensis (Reptile
Database) and the chameleons Chamaeleo conirostratus (p.
6 of CITES
pdf file) and Chamaeleo
kinetensis (Reptile
Database).
Freshwater fish known exclusively from South
Sudan include Barbus tongaensis (BHL)
and Labeo tongaensis
(IUCN
Red List).
Insects found only in South
Sudan include a butterfly Charaxes amandae (Charaxes),
a katydid Horatosphaga
nuda (OSF),
a gaudy grasshopper Parasphena
imatongensis
(fig. 14 at Google
Books), a longhorned beetle Allogaster nigripennis
(Smithsonian),
the plant bugs Campylomma rorida (Discover
Life) and Zinjolopus
elegans (AMNH),
a water bug Neomacrocoris poissoni
(AMNH),
and an ant Aenictus
mentu (BHL).
Endemic scorpions include Babycurus solegladi,
Neobuthus sudanensis,
and Buthus jianxinae
(all at SEA
pdf file). Gabbiella schweinfurthi (IUCN Red List) is an endemic freshwater snail.
Among the vascular plant species restricted to South Sudan
are Aloe diolii (flickr),
Aloe
macleayi (JSTOR),
a cycad Encephalartos
mackenziei (Cycad
Soc. pdf file), Chlorophytum superpositum
(JSTOR),
Scilla schweinfurthii
(JSTOR),
Scilla chlorantha (JSTOR),
Bidens chippii
(JSTOR),
Tragia bongolana
(JSTOR),
Coleochloa glabra (Kew),
Coleochloa
schweinfurthiana (JSTOR),
Jatropha melanosperma
(JSTOR),
Fuerstia bartsioides
(JSTOR),
Fadogia leucophloea
(JSTOR),
Carex thomasii
(JSTOR),
Festuca sudanensis
(JSTOR),
Hyperthelia edulis
(JSTOR),
and Panicum bambusiculme
(JSTOR).
South Sudan's Imatong Mountains are considered part of the Eastern Afromontane biodiversity hotspot (CI). Important terrestrial ecoregions include the East African Montane Forests (EoE) and the Saharan Flooded Grasslands (EoE). The Upper Nile (FEOW) is an important freshwater ecoregion.