Evarra tlahuacensis Meek, 1902
Endorheic dace, Endorheic chub, carpa de Tláhuac, Mexican dace (generic)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct (IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre, 1986, 1988; Miller et al., 1989; IUCN, 1990; Groombridge, 1994; Baillie & Groombridge, 1996:183; WCMC, 1996; Jelks et al., 2008:389; Burkhead, 2012; Mejía Guerrero, 2019)
Last record: 1901 (Chicago Museum); 1970 (Mejía Guerrero, 2019)
IUCN RedList status: Extinct
Estimated date of extinction: 1983 (Burkhead, 2012)
Distribution
Chalco Lake (= Lago de Chalco), Tlahuac, Mexico
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Holotype: FMNH 3681
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Meek, S. E. (1902). A contribution to the ichthyology of Mexico. Field Columbian Museum, Zoological Series v. 3 (no. 6): 63-128, Pls. 14-31.
Other references:
Álvarez del Villar, J. and Navarro, G. L. (1957). Los peces del Valle de México. Secretaría de Marina, Dirección General de Pesca e Industrias Conexas, Comisión para el Fomento de la Piscicultura Rural, México, D.F.
Baillie, J. and Groombridge, B. (eds). (1996). 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. International Union for Conservation of Nature, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK. 448 pp.
Bennett, Micah G. and Conway, Kevin W. (2010). An overview of North America’s diminutive freshwater fish fauna. Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters 21(1): 63-72.
Burkhead, Noel M. (2012). Extinction Rates in North American Freshwater Fishes, 1900–2010. BioScience 62(9): 798-808.
Groombridge, B. (ed.). (1994). 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
IUCN. (1990). IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre. (1986). 1986 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre. (1988). IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
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.
Meek, Seth Eugene. (1904). The Fresh-water Fishes of Mexico North of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. Zoological Series, volume 5. Chicago. 252 pp.
Mejía Guerrero, O. (2019). Evarra tlahuacensis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2019: e.T8433A3145804. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-2.RLTS.T8433A3145804.en. Downloaded on 26 June 2021.
Miller, Robert Rush, Minckley, W. L. and Morris, S. M. (2005). Freshwater Fishes of Mexico. The University of Chicago Press., Chicago, USA.
Miller, Robert Rush, Williams, James D. and Williams, Jack E. (1989). Extinctions of North American fishes during the past century. Fisheries 14(6): 22-38.
Riley, Chloe. (2015, September 8). Fish at Field Museum is Only One of its Kind in Existence. Chicago Tonight, available from: http://chicagotonight.wttw.com/2015/09/08/fish-field-museum-only-one-its-kind-existence [accessed 24 May, 2016]
World Conservation Monitoring Centre. (1996). Evarra tlahuacensis. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 31 May 2013.
https://extinctanimals.proboards.com/thread/1716/endorheic-dace-evarra-tlahuacensis
http://www.fishbase.org/summary/Evarra-tlahuacensis.html
https://www.extinction.photo/species/265-2/