Girardinichthys turneri (de Buén, 1940)
Highland goodeid, Highland splitfin, Cherehuita
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Hubbsina turneri de Buen 1940; Girardinichthys ireneae Radda & Meyer, 2003
Conservation Status
Rediscovered
Listed as extinct, with an estimated date of extinction as 1990, by (Burkhead, 2012). But it still survives according to (Moncayo-Estrada et al., 2022), with the species G. ireneae considered a synonym of this species by the Goodeid Working Group (http://www.goodeidworkinggroup.com/girardinichthys-ireneae) and thus probably being the source of the recent records of the species given by (Moncayo-Estrada et al., 2022).
Distribution
Michoacán, Mexico
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
de Buén, F. (1940). Un nuevo género de la familia Goodeidae perteneciente a la fauna ictiológica mexicana. Anales de la Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biologicas 2(2-3): 133-140.
Other references:
Burkhead, Noel M. (2012). Extinction Rates in North American Freshwater Fishes, 1900–2010. BioScience 62(9): 798-808.
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.
Lyons, John et al. (2019). Distribution and current conservation status of the Mexican Goodeidae (Actinopterygii, Cyprinodontiformes). ZooKeys 885: 115-158.
Moncayo-Estrada, Rodrigo. (2012). Historical analysis of the biology of Cherehuita (Hubbsina turneri) (Pisces: Goodeidae), endemic and threatened species from Mexico. Rev. Chapingo ser. cienc. for. ambient 18(1): 101-110. https://doi.org/10.5154/r.rchscfa.2011.02.020
Moncayo-Estrada, Rodrigo et al. (2022). Historical analysis of an imperiled fish species: environmental variables modeling, biotic interactions, extirpation, and current restricted-range. Front. Biosci. (Landmark Ed) 27(5): 165. https://doi.org/10.31083/j.fbl2705165
Radda, Alfred C. and Meyer, Manfred K. (2003). Description of Girardinichthys ireneae sp.n. from Zacapu, Michoacan, Mexico with remarks on the genera Girardinichthys Bleeker, 1860 and Hubbsina De Buen, 1941 (Goodeidae, Pisces). Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien. 104B: 5-9.
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