Critically Endangered
Canterbury mudfish
Neochanna burrowsius
Like other Neochanna species, it is a small, tubular and flexible fish that lacks scales.
Appearance
Like other Neochanna species, it is a small, tubular and flexible fish that lacks scales.
Adults often grow to 120 mm (4.7 in) total length, with a maximum of at least 150 mm (5.9 in).
The first Canterbury mudfish was described by W J Phillipps in 1926, from a specimen sent to him by A Burrows, a farmer from Oxford, North Canterbury.
Range and habitat
Canterbury mudfish are found from just north of Christchurch south to the Waitaki River. The Canterbury mudfish, also known as the kowaro, is found only on the Canterbury Plains in New Zealand.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Breeding
Canterbury mudfish spawn in late winter and spring. The small eggs are scattered amongst dense aquatic vegetation near the surface of the water.
Sexual maturity is reached in their first year and females spawn once per year, producing 500–10,000 eggs.
In crisis
Also in 2014 the IUCN rated the Canterbury mudfish as "Critically endangered".
Canterbury mudfish 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 Canterbury mudfish, Wikidata item Q44582. 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.
