Paretroplus maculatus Kiener & Maugé, 1966
Damba Mipentina
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct in the wild?
IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered
Has not been recorded in the wild in well over a decade (pre-2011), with a decline noted before this. However, the species is kept in both public collections and by private hobbyists (Leiss et al., 2022).
Distribution
Madagascar
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Kiener, A. and Maugé, M. 1966. Contribution à l'étude systématique et écologique des poissons Cichlidae endémiques de Madagascar. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle 40(2): 51-99.
Other references:
Baillie, J. and Groombridge, B. (eds). (1996). 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. pp. 378. International Union for Conservation of Nature, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
de Rham, P. and Nourissat, J.-C. (2002). Les cichlidés endémiques de Madagascar. Association France Cichlid. Sagrafic, Barcelona, Spain.
Groombridge, B. (ed.). (1994). 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
Leiss, Laura et al. (2022). Review of threatened Malagasy freshwater fishes in zoos and aquaria: The necessity of an ex situ conservation network—A call for action. Zoo Biology 41: 244-262. https://doi.org/10.1002/zoo.21661
Loiselle, P.V. and de Rham, P. (2003). Paretroplus. In: S.M. Goodman and J.P. Benstead (eds) The Natural History of Madagascar, pp. 877-878. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
Máiz-Tomé, L., Sayer, C. and Darwall, W. (eds.). (2018). The status and distribution of freshwater biodiversity in Madagascar and the Indian Ocean islands hotspot. Gland, Switzerland: IUCN. viii + 128 pp.
Nourissat, J.-C. (1992). Madagascar 1991. Revue Francaise des Cichlidophiles 118:9-29.
Nourissat, J.-C. (1997). Madagascar 1996. Revue Francaise des Cichlidophiles 174:19-34.
Sparks, J. S. (2008). Phylogeny of the Cichlid Subfamily Etroplinae and Taxonomic Revision of the Malagasy Cichlid Genus Paretroplus (Teleostei: Cichlidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 314: 1-151.
Sparks, J. S. (2016). Paretroplus maculatus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T16236A58297455. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T16236A58297455.en. Downloaded on 03 March 2018.
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