Endangered
Carmelita
Percilia irwini
Carmelita is a ray-finned fish in the family Perciliidae (order Perciformes) — Percilia irwini, recorded as Endangered and tied to Chile.
The ray-finned fish
Description Carmelita was originally described in 1927 by the American ichthyologist—born in Germany—Carl Henry Eigenmann. Habitat The Concepción Carmelita is distributed endemically in rivers to the west of the Andes mountain range in central-southern Chile, specifically in the Biobío Region.
Perch-like ray-finned fishes: spiny-rayed fins and a huge spread of freshwater and marine families.
Range and habitat
The Concepción Carmelita is distributed endemically in rivers to the west of the Andes mountain range in central-southern Chile, specifically in the Biobío Region. It is restricted to the Andalién River and some tributaries of the Biobío River, such as the Tubul-Raqui, the Rahue and the Malleco. The Concepción Carmelite is a freshwater fish in the genus Percilia of the order Centrarchiformes.
GBIF currently lists 466 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.
In crisis
Carmelita 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 Carmelita — often a short stub, Wikidata item Q5097008 and GBIF occurrence geography. 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.
