Critically Endangered
Northland mudfish
Neochanna heleios
The Northland mudfish is a galaxiid of the genus Neochanna, found only in swampy locations west of the Bay of Islands in Northland, New Zealand.
The galaxiid
Its length is up to 134 millimetres (5.3 in).
This named form is a galaxiid. The public files give taxonomy, a photograph, and a threat category — not a monograph.
Range and habitat
The Northland mudfish is a galaxiid of the genus Neochanna, found only in swampy locations west of the Bay of Islands in Northland, New Zealand.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
In crisis
Northland mudfish 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 Northland mudfish — often a short stub, Wikidata item Q44491. 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.
