Creatures in Crisis
Photograph of Brycon devillei (Brycon devillei), recorded as Endangered
Brycon devillei (Brycon devillei). Image via Wikimedia Commons.

Endangered

Brycon devillei

Brycon devillei

Brycon devillei was first described by François Louis Nompar de Caumont de Laporte in 1855.

Status
Endangered
Scientific name
Brycon devillei
Recorded from
Brazil
Taxonomy
Characiformes · Bryconidae · Brycon

The ray-finned fish

It was first described by François Louis Nompar de Caumont de Laporte in 1855.

Characiform fishes are Neotropical and African freshwater lineages: tetras, hatchetfishes, and their relatives.

Range and habitat

Brycon devillei is recorded from Brazil.

GBIF currently lists 4 occurrence points. Those points follow where people logged the taxon — museum drawers and surveys included — not a closed range boundary.

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

Brycon devillei 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 Cebuano Wikipedia article on Brycon devillei, translated and retold in English, plus Wikidata item Q5804245 and GBIF occurrence geography. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Confirm status and range on iucnredlist.org.

Photograph via Wikimedia Commons. Wikidata · IUCN Red List.

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Quick answers

What is Brycon devillei?
It was first described by François Louis Nompar de Caumont de Laporte in 1855.
What is the conservation status of Brycon devillei?
Endangered, as the IUCN category stored on Wikidata for Brycon devillei. Confirm the official assessment on iucnredlist.org.
Where does Brycon devillei live?
It was first described by François Louis Nompar de Caumont de Laporte in 1855.
Why is Brycon devillei in crisis?
It is Endangered on Wikidata. Read the official Red List assessment for the criteria.
Is this the IUCN Red List page for Brycon devillei?
No. This is a researched catalog account. The Red List is the assessment.
Is Brycon devillei a pet?
An animal on this catalog is in crisis in the wild. Keeping one is usually the wrong question.