Critically Endangered
Poropuntius tawarensis
Poropuntius tawarensis
Poropuntius tawarensis is a minnow in the family Cyprinidae (order Cypriniformes), recorded as Critically Endangered and tied to Indonesia and Malaysia.
The minnow
It was first described by Weber ug De Beaufort in 1916.
Minnows and barbs are ray-finned freshwater fishes without teeth in the jaws; they grind food with pharyngeal teeth.
Carps, minnows, and loaches. They lack jaw teeth and live in freshwater.
Range and habitat
It endemic to Lake Tawar in Aceh Province, northern Sumatra, Indonesia.
GBIF currently lists 35 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
Poropuntius tawarensis 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 Poropuntius tawarensis — often a short stub, Wikidata item Q2236024 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.
