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The Titicaca orestias, Lake Titicaca orestias, or Lake Titicaca flat-headed fish (Orestias cuvieri), also known by its native name amanto, is a likely extinct freshwater killifish from Lake Titicaca in South America. It belongs in the pupfish genus Orestias, endemic to lakes, rivers and streams in the Andean highlands. With a total length of up ...
The Titicaca orestias was last seen in 1939 and is almost certainly extinct. [13] O. pentlandii is from the same lake and it may have disappeared in its native form. [14] It was still regarded as "only" vulnerable by the IUCN in 2009, but in 2014 the species was regarded as critically endangered in a review of Lake Titicaca fish. [13]
Toggle Ray-finned fish (class Actinopterygii) subsection. 5.1 Catfishes ... Titicaca orestias: Orestias cuvieri: Lake Titicaca: The causes of decline are unknown. [72]
The Orestias ascotanensis is a small ray-finned fish that grows to just 7.5 centimeters (3 inches), but has adapted to the Ascotan salt flat's high concentrations of heavy metals and variable ...
The many Orestias species in Lake Titicaca differ significantly in both habitat preference [35] and feeding behavior. [36] About 90% of the fish species in the basin are endemic, [34] including 23 species of Orestias that only are found in the lake. [37] Andean coot among totora sedges
Orestias elegans (fish) L. Orestias laucaensis; P. Orestias parinacotensis; T. Titicaca orestias This page was last edited on 16 November 2014, at 12:26 ...
Titicaca is the largest Andean lake and Junin is the largest lake fully within Peru. Each host several threatened endemics, including grebes (Titicaca flightless grebe and Junin grebe), [4] giant aquatic frogs (Titicaca water frog and Lake Junin frog) [6] and Orestias fish. [7]
A 70-year-old man's feet sink into the soil as he passes abandoned boats where there used to be the water of Lake Titicaca. The highest navigable lake in the world has receded to what Bolivian ...