Rivulus modestus

Location Pages

• Igarape 12 de Outubro, Brazil (1 species) — Country guess: Brazil HIGH
• Rio Mutum, Brazil (1 species) — Country guess: Brazil HIGH

Country Guess (from Location Codes)

• Brazil HIGH

Killifish of West Africa (WAK) Pages

• Rivulus modestus — https://aka.org/wak/Ref_Library/Hypsopanchax/Hypso.modestus.htm
• Rivulus modestus — https://aka.org/wak/Ref_Library/Platypanchax/Platy.modestus.htm

Links to itrainsfishes.net, a website by Frans Vermeulen

• Species page for Melanorivulus modestus — https://www.itrainsfishes.net/content/melanorivulus_modestus_001.php

Primary Genus

• Rivulus - https://www.itrainsfishes.net/content/rivulus_introduction_001.php

Related Genera

• Anablepsoides - https://www.itrainsfishes.net/content/anablepsoides_introduction_001.php
• Atlantirivulus - https://www.itrainsfishes.net/content/atlantirivulus_introduction_001.php
• Benirivulus - https://www.itrainsfishes.net/content/benirivulus_introduction_001.php
• Cynodonichthys - https://www.itrainsfishes.net/content/cynodonichthys_introduction_001.php
• Laimosemion - https://www.itrainsfishes.net/content/laimosemion_introduction_001.php
• Melanorivulus - https://www.itrainsfishes.net/content/melanorivulus_introduction_001.php
• Oditichthys - https://www.itrainsfishes.net/content/oditichthys_introduction_001.php
• Owiyeye - https://www.itrainsfishes.net/content/owiyeye_introduction_001.php
• Rivulus Ss - https://www.itrainsfishes.net/content/rivulus_ss_introduction_001.php

Links to fishbase.org species profiles

• FishBase profile for Rivulus modestus — https://www.fishbase.org/summary/49777

IUCN Red List Conservation Status

• Status — IUCN - LC Least Concern (LC)
• Updated — 2018
• IUCN page — https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/53874345/139559349
• Attribution — Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade (ICMBio). 2022. Melanorivulus modestus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species [Version 2025-2].

Related Articles

• Fishes – List of Known Rivulus – thanks to Richard Sexton.