Endangered
Curmuca Barb
Hypselobarbus curmuca
The Curmuca barb is a ray-finned fish in the genus Hypselobarbus that is endemic to upland streams and rivers in southern India.
The minnow
Minnows and barbs are ray-finned freshwater fishes without teeth in the jaws; they grind food with pharyngeal teeth.
Carps, minnows, and loaches. They lack jaw teeth and live in freshwater.
Range and habitat
The Curmuca barb is a ray-finned fish in the genus Hypselobarbus that is endemic to upland streams and rivers in southern India.
GBIF currently lists 149 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.
In crisis
Curmuca Barb 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 Curmuca barb — often a short stub, Wikidata item Q142941 and GBIF occurrence geography. 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.
