Critically Endangered
Glossolepis dorityi
Glossolepis dorityi
Glossolepis dorityi is a rainbowfish in the family Melanotaeniidae (order Atheriniformes), recorded as Critically Endangered.
Appearance
Individuals of Glossolepis dorityi are greenish, with orange stripes between regular rows of large scales. Males have deeper bodies, and females lack the stripes between scale rows.
The species can grow up to 11.5 centimetres (4.5 in) in length.
Range and habitat
The species is known only from two lakes in the Grime river system. It was last caught in 2008, and may now be extinct in the wild, due to the threat of aquaculture and competition with non-native species of tilapia and carp. Captive bred individuals can be found in the aquarium trade, however.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet and breeding
During breeding, pairs of fish come together on the riverbed. The juvenile fish are 4mm long, and feed on microscopic inveterbrates and plants until they mature.
In crisis
Glossolepis dorityi 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 Glossolepis dorityi, Wikidata item Q5539907. 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.
