Creatures in Crisis
Photograph of Telestes ukliva (Telestes ukliva), recorded as Endangered
Telestes ukliva (Telestes ukliva). Image via Wikimedia Commons.

Endangered

Telestes ukliva

Telestes ukliva

Telestes ukliva is a minnow in the family Cyprinidae (order Cypriniformes), recorded as Endangered.

Status
Endangered
Scientific name
Telestes ukliva
Taxonomy
Cypriniformes · Cyprinidae · Telestes

Range and habitat

Endemic to the Cetina river in Croatia and reported as extinct in the 1990s, it was rediscovered in 1997. Its natural habitat is rivers. 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

Earlier authors misidentified T. Ukliva as the alien Telestes muticellus and erroneously considered T. Ukliva to be extinct.

Telestes ukliva 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 Telestes ukliva, Wikidata item Q859816. 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.

Photograph via Wikimedia Commons. Wikipedia · Wikidata · IUCN Red List.

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Quick answers

What is Telestes ukliva?
Telestes ukliva is a minnow in the family Cyprinidae (order Cypriniformes).
What is the conservation status of Telestes ukliva?
Endangered, as the IUCN category stored on Wikidata for Telestes ukliva. Confirm the official assessment on iucnredlist.org.
Where does Telestes ukliva live?
Endemic to the Cetina river in Croatia and reported as extinct in the 1990s, it was rediscovered in 1997.
Why is Telestes ukliva in crisis?
Endemic to the Cetina river in Croatia and reported as extinct in the 1990s, it was rediscovered in 1997.
Is this the IUCN Red List page for Telestes ukliva?
No. This is a researched catalog account. The Red List is the assessment.
Is Telestes ukliva a pet?
An animal on this catalog is in crisis in the wild. Keeping one is usually the wrong question.