Arapaima gigas

Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
ANIMALIA	CHORDATA	ACTINOPTERYGII	OSTEOGLOSSIFORMES	OSTEOGLOSSIDAE

Scientific Name:

Arapaima gigas

Species Authority:

(Cuvier, 1817)

Common Name/s:

English	–	Arapaima, Pirarucu
French	–	Arapaïma, Paiche

Red List Category & Criteria:

Data Deficient ver 2.3

Year Assessed:

1996

Annotations:

Needs updating

Assessor/s:

World Conservation Monitoring Centre

Reviewer/s:

History:

1994	–	Insufficiently Known (Groombridge 1994)
1990	–	Insufficiently Known (IUCN 1990)
1988	–	Vulnerable (IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre 1988)
1986	–	Vulnerable (IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre 1986)

Countries:	Native: Brazil; Guyana; Peru

Countries:

Native:

Brazil; Guyana; Peru

Systems:	Freshwater

Systems:

Freshwater

Conservation Actions:	It is listed on CITES Appendix II.

Conservation Actions:

It is listed on CITES Appendix II.

Citation:	World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1996. Arapaima gigas. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 04 February 2012.
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