Endangered
Glandulocauda melanopleura
Glandulocauda melanopleura
Glandulocauda melanopleura is a characin in the family Characidae (order Characiformes), recorded as Endangered and tied to Brazil, Paraguay, and Colombia.
The characin
It was first described by Ellis in 1911.
Characins are Neotropical freshwater fishes — tetras and their kin — usually schooling in rivers and flooded forest.
Characiform fishes are Neotropical and African freshwater lineages: tetras, hatchetfishes, and their relatives.
Range and habitat
Glandulocauda melanopleura is recorded from Brazil, Paraguay, and Colombia.
GBIF currently lists 127 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.
Habits
Characiforms school or hold small territories in Neotropical rivers. Many named tetras are known from one drainage that can be silted or dammed.
In crisis
Glandulocauda melanopleura 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 Glandulocauda melanopleura, translated and retold in English, plus Wikidata item Q8964191 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.
