Arapaïma

Scientific name:

Arapaima gigas

Threat level:

Data deficient

Authority:

Cuvier, 1817

Common names:

• Pirarucu (English)
• Paiche (French)

Version:

2.3

Year assessed:

1996

Assessor(s):

World Conservation Monitoring Centre

Assessment annotations:

Needs updating

Geographic ranges:

• Brazil (Native)
• Guyana (Native)
• Peru (Native)

Population trend:

Unknown

Ecosystems

• Freshwater

• Baillie, J. and Groombridge, B. (compilers and editors) 1996. 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.
• Groombridge, B. (ed.) 1994. 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.
• IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre. 1986. 1986 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
• IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre. 1988. 1988 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
• IUCN. 1990. 1990 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.