Critically Endangered
Bignose galaxias
Galaxias macronasus
Bignose galaxias is a galaxiid of the genus Galaxias, found in the upper Waitaki River catchment in the Mackenzie Basin in Otago, New Zealand.
The galaxiid
The species was described in 2003, after morphology and DNA sequencing distinguished it as a new species, closely related to other pencil galaxias species.
Range and habitat
Bignose galaxias is a galaxiid of the genus Galaxias, found in the upper Waitaki River catchment in the Mackenzie Basin in Otago, New Zealand. The species is non-diadromous, spending its entire life in freshwater unlike some other native galaxiids.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Habits
Spawning is likely to take place during winter.
In crisis
Bignose 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 Bignose galaxias, Wikidata item Q5604076. 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.
