Endangered
Arnoldichthys spilopterus
Arnoldichthys spilopterus
Arnoldichthys is monospecific genus of freshwater ray-finned fish in the family Lepidarchidae.
The ray-finned fish
Arnoldichthys spilopterus is a ray-finned fish in the family Alestidae (order Characiformes).
Range and habitat
No country pin is stored for Arnoldichthys spilopterus on this catalog. That is a missing field, not proof the animal has no range.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Habits
Characiforms school or hold small territories in Neotropical rivers. Many named tetras are known from one drainage that can be silted or dammed.
In crisis
The Niger tetra is currently classified as endangered by the IUCN due to its limited range coupled with losses to the aquarium trade and ongoing habitat degradation.
Arnoldichthys spilopterus is 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 Arnoldichthys spilopterus, Wikidata item Q387204. 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.
