Hyphessobrycon taurocephalus

The characin

Hyphessobrycon taurocephalus is a actinopterygii 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

Hyphessobrycon taurocephalus is recorded from Brazil.

GBIF currently lists 8 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

Hyphessobrycon taurocephalus 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 Waray Wikipedia article on Hyphessobrycon taurocephalus, translated and retold in English, plus Wikidata item Q6405709 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.