Ameca shiner
| Ameca shiner | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Cyprinidae |
| Subfamily: | Leuciscinae |
| Clade: | Pogonichthyinae |
| Genus: | Notropis |
| Species: | N. amecae
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| Binomial name | |
| Notropis amecae Chernoff & R. R. Miller, 1986
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The Ameca shiner (Notropis amecae) is a species of cyprinid fish in the Cyprinidae family. The Ameca shiner was described in 1986[1] from upper parts of the Ameca River drainage in Jalisco, Mexico.[2] Although already feared extinct by 1969,[2] and listed as such by the IUCN (last rated in 1996),[3] a tiny population was rediscovered in 2001.[4][5] Some were brought into captivity to form the basis of a breeding program. These have been used for a reintroduction project since 2015.[6][7]
Its closest relatives are the yellow shiner and the Durango shiner.[1]
References
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ a b Miller, Robert R.; Williams, James D.; Williams, Jack E. (1989). "Extinctions of North American Fishes During the past Century". Fisheries. 14:6: 22–38. doi:10.1577/1548-8446(1989)014<0022:EONAFD>2.0.CO;2. Retrieved 5 October 2015.
- ^ World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1996. Notropis amecae. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 19 July 2007.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Zoogoneticus tequila". Goodeid Working Group. Retrieved 27 September 2018.
- ^ "Mexico Fish Ark Project". Chester Zoo. Retrieved 27 September 2018.
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