Micronemacheilus pulcher

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Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
ANIMALIA	CHORDATA	ACTINOPTERYGII	CYPRINIFORMES	BALITORIDAE

Scientific Name:	Micronemacheilus pulcher
Species Authority:	(Nichols & Pope, 1927)
Synonym/s:	Nemacheilus pulcher Nichols & Pope, 1927 Traccatichthys pulcher (Nichols & Pope, 1927)

Red List Category & Criteria:	Least Concern ver 3.1
Year Published:	2011
Assessor/s:	Zhao, H. & Chen, X.-Y.
Reviewer/s:	Allen, D., Cui, K. & Zhou, W.
Contributor/s:
Justification: Widespread and not thought to be declining at a rate to qualify for a threatened category, this species is assessed as Least Concern.

Range Description:	Recorded from the Pearl River drainages of Guangdong and Guangxi Provinces and Hainan Island (Nodoa: type locality) in China.
Countries:	Native: China (Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan)
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Population:	No information available.
Population Trend:	Unknown

Habitat and Ecology:	Inhabits streams on sand and gravel bottom.
Systems:	Freshwater

Major Threat(s):	Streams are impacted by pollution (agriculture, industry and urban).

Major Threat(s):

Streams are impacted by pollution (agriculture, industry and urban).

Conservation Actions:	Recorded from the Shiwandashan National Park - Shangsi.

Conservation Actions:

Recorded from the Shiwandashan National Park - Shangsi.

	IUCN. 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (ver. 2011.2). Available at: http://www.iucnredlist.org. (Accessed: 10 November 2011). Nelson, J.S. 1994. Fishes of the world. John Wiley and Sons, Inc, New York, USA. Zheng, C.-Y. 1989. Fishes of the Zhujiang river. Science Press, Beijing.

IUCN. 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (ver. 2011.2). Available at: http://www.iucnredlist.org. (Accessed: 10 November 2011).

Nelson, J.S. 1994. Fishes of the world. John Wiley and Sons, Inc, New York, USA.

Zheng, C.-Y. 1989. Fishes of the Zhujiang river. Science Press, Beijing.

Citation:	Zhao, H. & Chen, X.-Y. 2011. Micronemacheilus pulcher. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 23 May 2013.
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