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Atherinella callida Chernoff, 1986

Cunning silverside

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

 

 

Conservation Status

Missing (Jelks et al., 2008:398) or Extinct (Burkhead, 2012; Mercado Silva, 2019)

Last record: 1957 (Mercado Silva, 2019)

IUCN RedList status: Extinct

 

Estimated date of extinction: 1957 (Burkhead, 2012). Which contradicts a quote elsewhere within the same paper: "captured only once, in 1962" (Burkhead, 2012).

 

Distribution & Habitat

North America

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

 

 

References

Original scientific description:

Chernoff, Barry. (1986). Systematics of American Atherinid Fishes of the Genus Atherinella. I. The Subgenus Atherinella. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 138(1): 86-188. [Abstract]

 

Other references:

Burkhead, Noel M. (2012). Extinction Rates in North American Freshwater Fishes, 1900–2010. BioScience 62(9): 798-808.

Eschmeyer, W. N. (1998). Catalog of fishes. California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, USA.

Garrido, A., Cuevas, M. L., Cotler, H., González, D. I. and Tharme, R. (2010). El estado de alteración ecohidrológica de los ríos de México, pp. 108–111. In: Cotler A.H. (ed.). Las cuencas hidrográficas de México: Diagnóstico y priorización. SEMARNAT-INE- FGRA. Printed in México.

Harrison, I. J. and Stiassny, M. L. J. (1999). The Quiet Crisis. A Preliminary Listing of the Freshwater Fishes of the World that are Extinct or "Missing in Action", pp. 271-331. In: MacPhee, R. D. E. (ed.). Extinctions in Near Time. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers.

Jelks, Howard L., Walsh, Stephen J., Burkhead, Noel M., Contreras-Balderas, Salvador, Díaz-Pardo, Edmundo, Hendrickson, Dean A., Lyons, J., Mandrak, Nicholas E., McCormick, Frank, Nelson, Joseph F., Platania, Steven P., Porter, Brady A., Renaud, Claude B., Schmitter-Soto, Juan Jacabo, Taylor, Eric B. and Warren, Melvin L. Jr. (2008). Conservation status of imperiled North American freshwater and diadromous fishes. Fisheries 33(8): 372-407.

Mercado Silva, N. (2019). Atherinella callida. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2019: e.T191116A1970358. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-2.RLTS.T191116A1970358.en. Accessed on 02 July 2022.

Miller, R.R. (with the collaboration of W.L. Minckley and S.M. Norris). (2005). Freshwater Fishes of Mexico. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois.

http://fl.biology.usgs.gov/documents/List_of_extinct_NA_fishes.pdf

 

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