Critically Endangered
Limia sulphurophila
Limia sulphurophila
Limia sulphurophila, also known as sulphur limia, is a livebearing fish in the family Poeciliidae.
The livebearer
Limia sulphurophila is a livebearer in the family Poeciliidae (order Cyprinodontiformes).
Range and habitat
Only known from the sulfur spring at Balneario La Zurza on the Dominican Republic's southeastern shore of Lake Enriquillo. Specimens identified as L. Sulphurophila have been collected in multiple springs in the Lake Enriquillo basin. Limia sulphurophila inhabits lowland freshwater karst springs on the basin of Lake Enriquillo.
It is endemic to the Dominican Republic in the island of Hispaniola.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Breeding
Livebearers drop free-swimming young. Many species occupy springs, lakes, or ditches with little room to retreat.
Small desert or forest fishes in this order live in water that can vanish. The egg bank, if there is one, is the only reserve.
In crisis
Limia sulphurophila 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 Limia sulphurophila, Wikidata item Q3757064. 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.
