Endangered
Nothobranchius korthausae
Nothobranchius korthausae
Nothobranchius korthausae is a killifish in the family Nothobranchiidae (order Cyprinodontiformes), recorded as Endangered.
The killifish
African killifish in this family occupy seasonal pools and forest streams. Annual species bury eggs before the pool dies.
Killifish, livebearers, and splitfins — small-bodied freshwater fishes, many of them from a single lake, spring, or seasonal pool.
Range and habitat
It is endemic to Mafia Island in Tanzania. Its natural habitat is pools, ditches and small streams.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Breeding
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
Nothobranchius korthausae 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 English Wikipedia article on Nothobranchius korthausae — often a short stub, Wikidata item Q2236549. 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.
