Stypodon signifer Garman, 1881:90
Sumptooth minnow
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct (Burkhead, 2012)
Last record: 1903 (Miller, 1961:380)
IUCN RedList status: Extinct
Estimated date of extinction: 1930 (Burkhead, 2012)
Distribution
springs in the Chihuahua desert, near Parras, Coahuila, Mexico
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Known only from 6 specimens.
The two type specimens were collected in 1880 (both are syntypes; including MCZ 24896). They both lack pharyngeals.
A second collection (USNM 50971, n=4) was made in 1903 by George Hochderfer (Miller, 1961:380).
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Media
References
Original scientific description:
Garman, Samuel. (1881). New and little-known Reptiles and Fishes in the Museum Collections. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College 8(3): 85-93.
Other references:
Almada-Villela, P. C. (1990). Status of threatened Mexican fishes. J. Fish Biol. 37(Suppl. A): 197-199.
Burkhead, Noel M. (2012). Extinction Rates in North American Freshwater Fishes, 1900–2010. BioScience 62(9): 798-808.
Contreras, Balderas, S. (1969). Perspectives de la ictiofauna en las zonas aridas del norte de México, pp. 293-304. In: Mem. Simp. Intern. sobre el aumento de la próduccion de alimentos en zonas aridas. ICASALS Pub. 3.
Day, David. (1981). The Doomsday Book of Animals: A Natural History of Vanished Species. New York, N.Y.: The Viking Press.
Groombridge, B. (ed.). 1994. 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
IUCN. 1990. 1990 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre. 1986. 1986 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre. 1988. IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
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.
Meek, Seth Eugene. (1904). The fresh-water fishes of Mexico north of the isthmus of Tehuantepec. Chicago: Columbian Field Museum. lxiii + 252 pp. [17.6 MB]
Miller, Robert Rush. (1961). Man and the changing fish fauna of the American southwest. Papers of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters 46: 365-404.
Miller, R.R., Minckley, W.L. and Norris, S.M. 2005 . Freshwater Fishes of México. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
Miller, R. R., Williams, J. D. and Williams, J. E. (1989). Extinctions of North American fishes during the past century. Fisheries 14(6): 22-38.
World Conservation Monitoring Centre. (1996). Stypodon signifer. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.1. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 09 July 2011.
World Conservation Monitoring Centre. (2019). Stypodon signifer. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2019: e.T21120A2774500. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-2.RLTS.T21120A2774500.en. Accessed on 12 June 2022.
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