Orestias elegans

Genus: Orestias
Species: elegans

Location Pages

• Rimac River, Peru (1 species) — Country guess: Peru HIGH
• Casapalca, Peru (1 species) — Country guess: Peru HIGH
• Lago Conicocha, Peru (1 species) — Country guess: Peru HIGH

Country Guess (from Location Codes)

• Peru HIGH

Links to itrainsfishes.net, a website by Frans Vermeulen

• Species page for Orestias elegans — https://www.itrainsfishes.net/content/orestias_elegans_001.php

• Orestias - https://www.itrainsfishes.net/content/orestias_introduction_001.php

Links to fishbase.org species profiles

• FishBase profile for Orestias elegans — https://www.fishbase.org/summary/49603

IUCN Red List Conservation Status

• Status — IUCN - EN Endangered
• Updated — 2020
• IUCN page — https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/176675428/176675433
• Attribution — Lyons, T.J. 2023. Orestias elegans. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species [Version 2025-2].