Chitala lopis (Bleeker, 1851)
Giant featherback
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Notopterus lopis Bleeker, 1851
Conservation Status
Last record: 1851 (Ng, 2020; Wibowo et al., 2023)
Rediscovered between: November 2015-September 2022 (Wibowo et al., 2023)
IUCN RedList status: Extinct
Distribution
Java (=Jawa), Indonesia
Biology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Bleeker, P. (1851). Over eenige nieuwe soorten van Megalops, Dussumieria, Notopterus en Astronesthes. Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indië 1(4): 417-424.
Other references:
Dahruddin, H., Hutama, A., Busson, F., Sauri, S., Hanner, R., Keith, P., Hadiaty, R. and Hubert, N. (2017). Revisiting the ichthyodiversity of Java and Bali through DNA barcodes: taxonomic coverage, identification accuracy, cryptic diversity and identification of exotic species. Molecular Ecology Resources 17(2): 288-299.
Kottelat, M. and Widjanarti, E. (2005). The fishes of Danau Sentarum National Park and the Kapuas Lakes area, Kalimantan Barat, Indonesia. Raffles Bull. Zool. Supplement 13: 139-173.
Ng, H. H. (2020). Chitala lopis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2020: e.T157719927A89815479. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-1.RLTS.T157719927A89815479.en. Downloaded on 05 April 2020.
Roberts, T. R. (1992). Systematic revision of the old world freshwater fish family Notopteridae. Ichthyol. Explor. Freshw. 2: 361-383.
Vardakas, Leonidas, Perdikaris, Costas, Freyhof, Jörg, Zimmerman, Brian, Ford, Matthew, Vlachopoulos, Konstantinos, Koutsikos, Nicholas, Karaouzas, Ioannis, Chamoglou, Maria and Kalogianni, Eleni. (2025). Global Patterns and Drivers of Freshwater Fish Extinctions: Can We Learn From Our Losses? Global Change Biology 31(5): e70244. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.70244 [Table S1]
Wibowo, A., H. Haryono, K. Kurniawan, et al. (2023). Rediscovery of the Giant Featherback Chitala lopis (Notopteridae) in Its Type Locality Resolves Decades of Taxonomic Confusion. Endangered Species Research 52: 285-301. https://doi.org/10.3354/esr01281