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Cyprinodon nevadensis calidae Miller, 1948

Tecopa pupfish

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

 

 

Conservation Status

Extinct (Burkhead, 2012)

Last record: 2 February 1970 (Miller et al., 1989:30)

 

Estimated date of extinction: 1971 (Burkhead, 2012).

 

Distribution

near Tecopa, Inyo County, California, USA

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

Source: Ono et al. (1983)

 

References

Original scientific description:

Miller, Robert Rush. (1948). The cyprinodont fishes of the Death Valley system of eastern California and southwestern Nevada. Misc. Publ. Mus. Zool. Univ. Mich. 68: 1-155.

 

Other references:

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

Day, David. (1981). The Doomsday Book of Animals: A Natural History of Vanished Species. New York, N.Y.: The Viking Press.

Hudon, Daniel (writer) and Behin, Elahe (illustrator). (2014, April 6th). Brief Eulogies for Lost Species. Paragraphiti. Retrieved from http://www.paragraphiti.com/brief-eulogies-for-lost-species/ [accessed 21 April, 2018]

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.

Miller, R. R., Williams, J. D. and Williams, J. E. (1989). Extinctions of North American fishes during the past century. Fisheries 14(6): 22-38.

Ono, R. Dana, Williams, James D. and Wagner, Anne [with painting by Aleta Pahel]. (1983). Vanishing Fishes of North America. Washington DC: Stone Wall Press, Inc. 257 pp.

 

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