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Priapella bonita Meek, 1904

Graceful priapella

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Gambusia bonita Meek, 1904

 

Conservation Status

Extinct

IUCN RedList status: Extinct

 

Estimated date of extinction: 1906 (Burkhead, 2012)

 

Distribution

Mexico

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

 

 

References

Original scientific description:

Meek, M. K. (1904). The fresh-water fishes of Mexico north of the isthmus of Tehuantepec. Publ. Field Columbian Mus. of Nat. Hist., Zool. Ser. 5:v-lxiii+1-252.


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.

World Conservation Monitoring Centre. (1996). Priapella bonita. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.1. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 09 July 2011.

 

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