Priapella bonita Meek, 1904
Graceful priapella, Guayacón ojiazul, guayacón bonito
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Gambusia bonita Meek, 1904
Conservation Status
Extinct (Jelks et al., 2008:402)
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:
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.
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.
Williams, Jack E., Johnson, James E., Hendrickson, Dean A., Contreras-Balderas, Salvador, Williams, James D., Navarro-Mendoza, Miguel, McAllister, Don E. and Deacon, James E. (1989). Fishes of North America endangered, threatened, or of special concern: 1989. Fisheries 14(6): 2-20.
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.