Ameca shiner

The Ameca shiner (Notropis amecae) is a species of cyprinid fish in the family Cyprinidae. The Ameca shiner was described in 1986[2] from upper parts of the Ameca River drainage in Jalisco, Mexico.[3] Although already feared extinct by 1969,[3] and listed as such by the IUCN when rated in 1996,[4] a tiny population was rediscovered in 2001.[5][6] Some were brought into captivity to form the basis of a breeding program. These have been used for a reintroduction project since 2015.[7][8]

Ameca shiner

Extinct in the Wild  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Cyprinidae
Subfamily: Leuciscinae
Genus: Notropis
Species:
N. amecae
Binomial name
Notropis amecae
Chernoff & R. R. Miller, 1986

Its closest relatives are the yellow shiner and the Durango shiner.[2]

References
  1. Domínguez, O. 2019. Notropis amecae. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2019: e.T14881A546437. Downloaded on 24 July 2019.
  2. Chernoff, B.; Miller, R.R. (1986). "Fishes of the Notropis calientis complex with a key to the southern shiners of Mexico". Copeia. 1986 (1): 170–183. doi:10.2307/1444903. JSTOR 1444903.
  3. 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.
  4. World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1996. Notropis amecae. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 19 July 2007.
  5. López-López, E.; J. Paulo-Maya (2001). "Changes in the Fish Assemblages in the Upper Río Ameca, Mexico". Journal of Freshwater Ecology. 16 (2): 179–187. doi:10.1080/02705060.2001.9663803.
  6. Jelks, H.L., S.J. Walsh, N.M. Burkhead, S. Contreras-Balderas, E. Díaz-Pardo, D.A. Hendrickson, J. Lyons, N.E. Mandrak, F. McCormick, J.S. Nelson, S.P. Platania, B.A. Porter, C.B. Renaud, J.J. Schmitter-Soto, E.B. Taylor and M.L. Warren Jr. (2008). Conservation status of imperiled North American freshwater and diadromous fishes. Fisheries 33(8): 372-407.
  7. "Zoogoneticus tequila". Goodeid Working Group. Retrieved 27 September 2018.
  8. "Mexico Fish Ark Project". Chester Zoo. Retrieved 27 September 2018.

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