Cyprinodon inmemoriam Lozano-Vilano & Contreras-Balderas, 1993
Charco Azul pupfish
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct (Burkhead, 2012)
Last record: 17 March 1984
IUCN RedList status: Extinct
Estimated date of extinction: 1986 (Burkhead, 2012)
Distribution
Ojo la Trinidad, northern Mexico
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
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 inmemoriam. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 31 May 2013.
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, Robert Rush, Minckley, W. L. and Norris, S. M. (2005). Freshwater Fishes of México. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
Schmitter-Soto, J. (2019). Cyprinodon inmemoriam. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2019: e.T6176A3107502. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-2.RLTS.T6176A3107502.en. Downloaded on 26 June 2021.