Chirostoma bartoni Jordan & Evermann, 1896:793
Alberca silverside
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Menidia bartoni Jordan & Evermann, 1896
The valid scientific name may be Menidia bartoni.
Conservation Status
Extinct (Jelks et al., 2008; Burkhead, 2012)
Last record: August 2006
IUCN status: Critically Endangered (Possibly Extinct)
"the last known fish to go extinct in North America, the Alberca silverside (Chirostoma bartoni), which vanished when the Alberca caldera temporarily dried in August 2006" (Burkhead, 2012:799). Estimated date of extinction: 2006 (Burkhead, 2012)
Distribution
Alberca Caldera, Guanajuato, México
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Jordan, D. S. and Evermann, B. W. (1896). The Fishes of North and Middle America. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Species of Fish-Like Vertebrates Found in the Waters of North America, North of the Isthmus of Panama Part I. Bulletin of the United States National Museum No. 47. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C.
Other references:
Burkhead, Noel M. (2012). Extinction Rates in North American Freshwater Fishes, 1900–2010. BioScience 62(9): 798-808.
Contreras-Balderas, S. & Almada-Villela, P. (1996). Chirostoma bartoni. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.1. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 23 September 2012.
de Buén, F. (1940). Huevos, crias, larvas y jovenes de Chirostoma del Lago de Patzcuaro. Trab. Estac. Limnol. Patzcuaro 3: 1-14.
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. Chirostoma bartoni. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2019: e.T4689A3011880. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-2.RLTS.T4689A3011880.en. Accessed on 10 July 2022.
http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=3315#.UF8JnrIgeSp