Critically Endangered
Cottus petiti
Cottus petiti
Cottus petiti is a ray-finned fish in the family Cottidae (order Scorpaeniformes), recorded as Critically Endangered and tied to France.
The ray-finned fish
The males of this species are typically 56 mm (2.2 in) in length.
Range and habitat
It is endemic to France, found only in a small 3 km stretch of the river Lez in Southern France near Montpellier. The natural habitat is fed by karstic springs that may have enabled the isolated survival of the population through geological history. Now the species may be threatened by habitat loss.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
In crisis
Cottus petiti 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 Cottus petiti, Wikidata item Q301667. 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.
