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

Extinct  (yes)  (IUCN 2.3)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Cyprinidae
Subfamily: Leuciscinae
Genus: Notropis
Species:
N. aulidion
Binomial name
Notropis aulidion
Chernoff & R. R. Miller, 1986

References

  1. 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.
  2. 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.

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