Endangered
Pachypanchax omalonotus
Pachypanchax omalonotus
Pachypanchax omalonotus, the powder-blue panchax, is a Aplocheilid killifish endemic to Madagascar where it is found on the island of Nosy Be and in the Sambirano River basin and adjacent streams on the mainland.
The ray-finned fish
Killifish, livebearers, and splitfins — small-bodied freshwater fishes, many of them from a single lake, spring, or seasonal pool.
Range and habitat
Pachypanchax omalonotus, the powder-blue panchax, is a Aplocheilid killifish endemic to Madagascar where it is found on the island of Nosy Be and in the Sambirano River basin and adjacent streams on the mainland. Its natural habitat is rivers.
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
Pachypanchax omalonotus 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 Pachypanchax omalonotus — often a short stub, Wikidata item Q1883132. 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.
