Charax macrolepis

Taxonomy

Assessment Information

Geographic Range

Population

Habitat and Ecology

Threats

Conservation Actions

Bibliography

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
ANIMALIA	CHORDATA	ACTINOPTERYGII	CHARACIFORMES	CHARACIDAE

Scientific Name:	Charax macrolepis
Species Authority:	(Kner, 1858)
Synonym/s:	Epicyrtus macrolepis Kner, 1858

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria:	Least Concern ver 3.1
Year Published:	2009
Assessor/s:	Reis, R & Lima, F.
Reviewer/s:	Collen, B., Darwall, W., Ram, M. & Smith, K. (SRLI Freshwater Fish Evaluation Workshop)
Contributor/s:
Justification: Assessed as Least Concern due to its fairly wide distribution and the lack of any known widespread threats to the species or the area in which it is distributed.

Geographic Range [top]

Range Description:	This species occurs in the Guaporé River basin and in the upper Madeira River drainage, Brazil.
Countries:	Native: Brazil
Range Map:	Click here to open the map viewer and explore range.

Population [top]

Population:	Charax species are generally relatively common.
Population Trend:	Stable

Habitat and Ecology [top]

Habitat and Ecology:	C. macrolepis is a benthopelagic (ecological region at the lowest level of water body) species. The species occur in big streams, rivers and lagoons.
Systems:	Freshwater

Threats [top]

Major Threat(s):	The river basin is deforested in certain areas, but still maintains a biodiverse assemblage of fish.

Major Threat(s):

The river basin is deforested in certain areas, but still maintains a biodiverse assemblage of fish.

Conservation Actions [top]

Conservation Actions:	There are no conservation measures in place.

Conservation Actions:

There are no conservation measures in place.

Bibliography [top]

	Anon. 2002. Fish collection database of the American Museum of Natural History.. Eschmeyer, W.N. 1998. Catalogue of fishes. California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco. Eschmeyer, W.N. 2000. Catalo of fishes. Updated database version of November 2000.. Froese, R. and Pauly, D. 2006. FishBase. Available at: www.fishbase.org. IUCN. 2009. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (ver. 2009.2). Available at: www.iucnredlist.org. (Accessed: 3 November 2009). Lucena, C.A.S. and Menezes, N.A. 2003. Characidae - Characinae (Characins, tetras). In: R.E. Reis, S.O. Kullander and C.J. Ferraris, Jr. (eds), Checklist of the Freshwater Fishes of South and Central America, pp. 200-208. Porto Alegre: EDIPUCRS, Brasil.

Anon. 2002. Fish collection database of the American Museum of Natural History..

Eschmeyer, W.N. 1998. Catalogue of fishes. California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco.

Eschmeyer, W.N. 2000. Catalo of fishes. Updated database version of November 2000..

Froese, R. and Pauly, D. 2006. FishBase. Available at: www.fishbase.org.

IUCN. 2009. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (ver. 2009.2). Available at: www.iucnredlist.org. (Accessed: 3 November 2009).

Lucena, C.A.S. and Menezes, N.A. 2003. Characidae - Characinae (Characins, tetras). In: R.E. Reis, S.O. Kullander and C.J. Ferraris, Jr. (eds), Checklist of the Freshwater Fishes of South and Central America, pp. 200-208. Porto Alegre: EDIPUCRS, Brasil.

Citation:	Reis, R & Lima, F. 2009. Charax macrolepis. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 22 May 2013.
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