It was last caught in 2008, and may now be extinct in the wild, due to the threat of aquaculture and competition with non-native species of tilapia and carp.

[1] The locality in which the species is found is a floodplain, covered with small round lakes.

[1] Individuals of Glossolepis dorityi are greenish, with orange stripes between regular rows of large scales.

Males have deeper bodies, and females lack the stripes between scale rows.

The juvenile fish are 4mm long, and feed on microscopic inveterbrates and plants until they mature.