Leptolebias opalescens Myers, 1942
Annual tropical killifish, Opalescent pearlfish
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Cynolebias opalescens Myers, 1942
Conservation Status
Last record: 1981
Rediscovered in 28 October 2012
IUCN RedList status: Vulnerable
Distribution
South-eastern Brazil
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Myers, G. S. (1942). Studies on South American fresh-water fishes. Stanford Ichthyological Bulletin 2(4): 89-114.
Other references:
Costa, Wilson J. E. M. (2008). Monophyly and taxonomy of the Neotropical seasonal killifish genus Leptolebias (Teleostei: Aplocheiloidei: Rivulidae), with the description of a new genus. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 153: 147-160.
Costa, Wilson J. E. M. (2013). Leptolebias opalescens, a supposedly extinct seasonal killifish from the Atlantic Forest of south-eastern Brazil, rediscovered 31 years after its last record (Cyprinodontiformes: Rivulidae). Ichthyol. Explor. Freshwaters 23(4): 357-358. [online PDF omits most references]
Guedes, Gustavo H. S., Salgado, Fernando L. K., Uehara, Wagner, Ferreira, Débora L. de Pavia and Araújo, Francisco G. (2020). The recapture of Leptopanchax opalescens (Aplocheiloidei: Rivulidae), a critically endangered seasonal killifish: habitat and aspects of population structure. Zoologia 37: 1-8. https://doi.org/10.3897/zoologia.37.e54982
World Conservation Monitoring Centre. (1996). Leptolebias opalescens. In: IUCN 2013. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.1. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 27 July 2013.