Critically Endangered
Roundhead galaxias
Galaxias anomalus
The Central Otago roundhead galaxias is a galaxiid of the genus Galaxias, found only in the Taieri and Clutha catchments in Otago, New Zealand.
The galaxiid
It grows to a length of up to 13 cm (5.1 in).
This named form is a galaxiid. The public files give taxonomy, a photograph, and a threat category — not a monograph.
Range and habitat
The Central Otago roundhead galaxias is a galaxiid of the genus Galaxias, found only in the Taieri and Clutha catchments in Otago, New Zealand.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
In crisis
Roundhead galaxias 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 Roundhead galaxias — often a short stub, Wikidata item Q5255303. 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.
