Critically Endangered
Scriptaphyosemion schmitti
Scriptaphyosemion schmitti
Scriptaphyosemion schmitti is a killifish in the family Nothobranchiidae (order Cyprinodontiformes), recorded as Critically Endangered and tied to Liberia and Germany.
The killifish
It was first described by Romand in 1979.
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
Scriptaphyosemion schmitti is recorded from Liberia and Germany.
GBIF currently lists 16 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.
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
Scriptaphyosemion schmitti 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 Cebuano Wikipedia article on Scriptaphyosemion schmitti, translated and retold in English, plus Wikidata item Q5608839 and GBIF occurrence geography. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Confirm status and range on iucnredlist.org.
