Endangered
Aristotle's catfish
Silurus aristotelis
Aristotle's catfish is a ray-finned fish in the family Siluridae (order Siluriformes) — Silurus aristotelis, recorded as Endangered and tied to Greece.
The ray-finned fish
This species grows to a length of 46 centimetres (18 in) TL and is of importance to local commercial fisheries.
Its name derives from the fact that it was first described by Aristotle in his History of Animals.
Range and habitat
It is endemic to Greece, where it occurs in the Acheloos River drainage. Its natural habitat is freshwater lakes. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
In crisis
It is known from Lake Trichonida, Lake Lysimachia and Lake Amvrakia, and was introduced to Lake Volvi and Lake Ioannina in the 1980s. Threats may be water pollution and overfishing.
Aristotle's catfish 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 Aristotle's catfish, Wikidata item Q529131. 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.
