Endangered
Puntius tambraparniei
Dawkinsia tambraparniei
Puntius tambraparniei is a minnow in the family Cyprinidae (order Cypriniformes) — Dawkinsia tambraparniei, recorded as Endangered.
The minnow
This species can reach a length of 12.8 centimetres (5.0 in) SL.
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
Puntius tambraparniei is a cyprinid fish found in the Tambraparni River basin in the Western Ghats, Tamil Nadu, India.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
In crisis
This species population has significantly decreased in recent years due to human activities such as sand mining.
Puntius tambraparniei 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 Dawkinsia tambraparniei — often a short stub, Wikidata item Q3758180. 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.



