''Brachygalaxias gothei'' (known locally as puye) is a species of

fish Fish are aquatic, craniate, gill-bearing animals that lack limbs with digits. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish as well as various extinct related groups. Approximately 95% of li ...

in the family

Galaxiidae The Galaxiidae are a family of mostly small freshwater fish in the Southern Hemisphere. The majority live in Southern Australia or New Zealand, but some are found in South Africa, southern South America, Lord Howe Island, New Caledonia, and th ...

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsew ...

Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east a ...

. It was formerly listed as Vulernable in 1994 until being changed in 1996. It is considered a synonym of '' Brachygalaxias bullocki'' but is listed separately by the IUCN Red List.

References

Brachygalaxias Freshwater fish of Chile Fish described in 1982 Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Endemic fauna of Chile {{Osmeriformes-stub