SPECIES EXTINCT 2020 was a bleak year for freshwater fish. It began with confirmation of the extinction of the iconic Chinese paddlefish, an endemic giant of the Yangtze river and ended with the IUCN Red List for Threatened SpeciesTM announcing the loss of 15 more species in the Philippines. Overall, 80 freshwater fishes have been declared Extinct by IUCN, while 10 more have been declared Extinct in the Wild and 115 are classified as 'Critically Endangered Possibly Extinct'. The World's Forgotten Fishes page 40