Critically Endangered
Hasemania melanura
Hasemania melanura
Hasemania melanura is a characin in the family Characidae (order Characiformes), recorded as Critically Endangered and tied to Brazil.
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
Hasemania melanura is recorded from Brazil.
GBIF currently lists 5 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
Hasemania melanura 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 Cebuano Wikipedia article on Hasemania melanura, translated and retold in English, plus Wikidata item Q5528930 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.
