Critically Endangered
Dusky Galaxias
Galaxias pullus
The dusky galaxias is a galaxiid of the genus Galaxias, found only in the Taieri and Clutha catchments in Otago, New Zealand.
The galaxiid
This named form is a galaxiid. The public files give taxonomy, a photograph, and a threat category — not a monograph.
Range and habitat
The dusky galaxias is a galaxiid of the genus Galaxias, found only in the Taieri and Clutha catchments in Otago, New Zealand.
GBIF currently lists 866 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
Dusky 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 Dusky Galaxias — often a short stub, Wikidata item Q6421610 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.
