Critically Endangered
Anatolichthys danfordii
Aphanius danfordii
Anatolichthys danfordii is a ray-finned fish in the family Cyprinodontidae (order Cyprinodontiformes) — Aphanius danfordii, recorded as Critically Endangered.
Appearance
Males have nine to twelve dark grey-black bars on the sides of the body, a dark blue-black dorsal fin and colourless to yellow caudal and anal fin with two or three black lines at the margins. Females have silver-grey body with a large number of dark grey spots. The largest spot is always centered on the base of the caudal fin.
Species description and naming Anatolichthys danfordii was described by George Boulenger as Lebias danfordii in 1890 with the type locality given as Albistan.
Range and habitat
It is endemic to Turkey and distributes in the drainage systems of the Kızılırmak River and in the upper Seyhan River, but further investigations are needed. It is endemic to the Kızılırmak River and the upper Seyhan River drainage systems and is now restricted to a few locations in the Sultan Sazlığı marshes.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Breeding
Small desert or forest fishes in this order live in water that can vanish. The egg bank, if there is one, is the only reserve.
In crisis
Even though little data is available, the population of the fish seems to be declining. The International Union for Conservation of Nature has rated its conservation status as being "critically endangered" and fears it may become extinct in the wild if the drainage of the marshes continues. The International Union for Conservation of Nature has rated its conservation status as "critically endangered" and fears it may become extinct in the wild if drainage of the marshes continues.
Anatolichthys danfordii is Critically Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Anatolichthys danfordii, Wikidata item Q3758739. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
