Cyprinodon ceciliae Lozano-Vilano & Contreras-Balderas, 1993
Villa Lopez pupfish, Violet pupfish
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct (Burkhead, 2012)
Last record: 1988 or later
IUCN RedList status: Extinct
Estimated date of extinction: 1991 (Burkhead, 2012)
Distribution
Nuevo Leon, Mexico
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
USNM 308114.5199848 (2 fish)
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Lozano-Vilano, M. d. L. and Conteras-Balderas, Salvador. (1993). Four new species of Cyprinodon from southern Nuevo León, Mexico, with a key to the C. eximius complex (Teleostei: Cyprinodontidae). Ichthyol. Explor. Freshwaters. 4(4): 295-308.
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). Cyprinodon ceciliae. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 31 May 2013.
Contreras-Balderas, S., Almada-Villela, P. & Palmer-Newton, A. 2019. Cyprinodon ceciliae. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2019: e.T6177A3107534. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-2.RLTS.T6177A3107534.en. Accessed on 02 July 2022.
Contreras-Balderas, S. and Lozano-Vilano, M. L. 1996. Survival status of the Sandia and Potosí Valleys endemic pupfishes and crayfishes from the Mexican plateau in Nuevo león, Mexico, with Comments on Associated Extinct Snails. Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters 7(1): 33-40.
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.
Lozano-Vilano, M. L. and Maza-Benignos, M. De La. (2016). Diversity and status of Mexican killifishes. Journal of Fish Biology. DOI: 10.1111/jfb.13186 [Abstract]
Miller, R.R., Minckley, W.L. and Norris, S.M. 2005 . Freshwater Fishes of México. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.