Skiffia francesae Kingston, 1978
Golden skiffia, Tiro, Golden sawfish goodeid
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct in the wild
Last record: 1979
IUCN RedList status: Extinct in the Wild
A species currently extinct in the wild (Contreras-Balderas & Almada-Villela, 1996). Plans for reintroduction are unknown.
Distribution
Mexico
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Kingston, Dolores Irene. (1978). Skiffia francesae, a New Species of Goodeid Fish from Western Mexico. Copeia 1978(3): 503-508.
Other references:
Burkhead, Noel M. (2012). Extinction Rates in North American Freshwater Fishes, 1900–2010. BioScience 62(9): 798-808.
Contreras-Balderas, S. & Almada-Villela, P. (1996). Skiffia francesae. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.1. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 23 September 2012.
Dalrymple, S. E., Abeli, T., Ewen, J. G., Gilbert, T. C., Hogg, C. J., Lloyd, N. A., Moehrenschlager, A., Rodríguez, J. P. and Smith, D. (2023). Addressing Threats and Ecosystem Intactness to Enable Action for Extinct in the Wild Species. Diversity 15: 268. https://doi.org/10.3390/d15020268
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De La Vega-Salazar, M. Y., Avila-Luna, E., Macías-Garcia, C. 2003a. Ecological evaluation of local extinction: the case of two genera of endemic Mexican fish, Zoogoneticus and Skiffia. Biodiversity & Conservation 12(1): 2043-2056.
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Koeck, M. (2019). Skiffia francesae. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2019: e.T20285A2757376. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-2.RLTS.T20285A2757376.en. Accessed on 10 June 2022.
Lyons, John et al. (2019). Distribution and current conservation status of the Mexican Goodeidae (Actinopterygii, Cyprinodontiformes). ZooKeys 885: 115-158.
Miller, Robert Rush. (2005). Freshwater fishes of Mexico. University of Chicago Press – Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, Chicago, USA.
Ramsar Secretariat. (2009). Presa La Vega site No.2026. Ficha Informativa de los Humedales de Ramsar (FIR) – Versión 2009-2012. Ramsar Secretariat.
Smith, Donal et al. (2023). Extinct in the wild: The precarious state of Earth’s most threatened group of species. Science 379(6634): eadd2889. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.add2889
Webb, Shane A. and Miller, Robert Rush. (1998). Zoogoneticus tequila, a new goodeid fish (Cyprinodontiformes) from the Ameca drainage of Mexico, and a rediagnosis of the genus. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology The University of Michigan, no. 725, 23 pp. [records of this species from Ameca drainage, Mexico]