Crenicichla cyclostoma Ploeg, 1986
Jacundá

Family:  Cichlidae (Cichlids), subfamily: Cichlinae
Max. size:  9.6 cm SL (male/unsexed)
Environment:  benthopelagic; freshwater
Distribution:  South America: Amazon River basin, in the lower Tocantins River basin.
Diagnosis:   
Biology: 
IUCN Red List Status: Critically Endangered (CR); Date assessed: 07 November 2018 (A4c) Ref. (130435)
Threat to humans:  harmless
Country info:  Known from the Amazon River basin, in the lower Tocantins River basin (Ref. 36377). Type locality: Tucurui, residual pools downstream of stowage, after closing the stowage (Ref. 33021). Maybe threatened by extinction due to its restricted distribution in the rapids of Rio Tocantins, a biotope currently destroyed by hydroelectric power plants (Ref. 85327). Also Ref. 12251.


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