Endangered
Marbled Lyretail
Fundulopanchax marmoratus
Marbled Lyretail was first described by ] in 1973.
The killifish
It was first described by ] in 1973.
African killifish in this family occupy seasonal pools and forest streams. Annual species bury eggs before the pool dies.
Killifish, livebearers, and splitfins — small-bodied freshwater fishes, many of them from a single lake, spring, or seasonal pool.
Range and habitat
Marbled Lyretail is recorded from Cameroon, Japan, and Germany.
GBIF currently lists 22 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.
Breeding
Small desert or forest fishes in this order live in water that can vanish. The egg bank, if there is one, is the only reserve.
In crisis
Marbled Lyretail 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 Fundulopanchax marmoratus, translated and retold in English, plus Wikidata item Q8963104 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.
