Ptychochromoides itasy

Ptychochromoides itasy
Conservation status
Critically Endangered  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Cichliformes
Family:	Cichlidae
Genus:	Ptychochromoides
Species:	P. itasy
Binomial name
Ptychochromoides itasy Sparks, 2004[2]

Ptychochromoides itasy is a species of cichlid fish from central Madagascar. Until rediscovered in a pond at a tributary of the Tsiribihina River in late 2010, it was only known from Lake Itasy where last seen in the 1970s.^[3][4] The reason for its extirpation from Lake Itasy was likely habitat degradation and competition/predation by introduced species.^[1]

References

1. Ravelomanana, T.; Sparks, J.S. (2020). "Ptychochromoides itasy". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T44513A177066939. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T44513A177066939.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
2. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Ptychochromoides itasy". FishBase. April 2013 version.
3. Toronto Zoo (2010). Mad Fishes 2010 – Fish conservation with Tim McCaskie in Madagascar. Accessed 14 July 2011
4. Sparks, Loiselle, and Baldwin (2012). Rediscovery and phylogenetic placement of the endemic Malagasy cichlid Ptychochromoides itasy (Teleostei: Cichlidae: Ptychochrominae). Zootaxa 3352: 17–24.