Durango shiner
The Durango shiner (Notropis aulidion) is an extinct species of freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae. It was found only in Mexico. No essential further information on this species is given in the standard references of FishBase and IUCN Red List. The Durango shiner was native to the Rio Tunal, which forms the headwaters of the San Pedro Mezquital River, a Pacific slope river rising near Durango City, Durango, Mexico (Chernoff and Miller 1986). It was taken there only in 1951 and 1961.[1] Its closest relatives were the yellow shiner and the Ameca shiner.[2]
| Durango shiner | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Leuciscidae |
| Subfamily: | Pogonichthyinae |
| Genus: | Notropis |
| Species: | †N. aulidion |
| Binomial name | |
| †Notropis aulidion Chernoff & R. R. Miller, 1986 | |
References
- Miller, Robert R.; Williams, James D.; Williams, Jack E. (1989). "Extinctions of North American Fishes During the past Century" (PDF). Fisheries. 14:6 (6): 22–38. doi:10.1577/1548-8446(1989)014<0022:EONAFD>2.0.CO;2. hdl:2027.42/141989.
- Barry Chernoff; Robert Rush Miller (1986). "Fishes of the Notropis calientis Complex with a Key to the Southern Shiners of Mexico". Copeia. 1896 (1): 170–183. doi:10.2307/1444903. JSTOR 1444903.
Sources
- WCMC 1996. Notropis aulidion. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 10 July 2007.
- Durango shiner on FishBase
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