Endangered
Hyphessobrycon paucilepis
Hyphessobrycon paucilepis
Hyphessobrycon paucilepis is a characin in the family Characidae (order Characiformes), recorded as Endangered.
The characin
It was first described by García-alzate, Román-valencia ug Donald C.Taphorn in 2008.
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
No country pin is stored for Hyphessobrycon paucilepis on this catalog. That is a missing field, not proof the animal has no range.
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
Hyphessobrycon paucilepis 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 Hyphessobrycon paucilepis, translated and retold in English, plus Wikidata item Q5551536. 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.
