Ash Meadows killifish
| Ash Meadows killifish | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cyprinodontiformes |
| Family: | Goodeidae |
| Subfamily: | Empetrichthyinae |
| Genus: | Empetrichthys |
| Species: | E. merriami |
| Binomial name | |
| Empetrichthys merriami C. H. Gilbert, 1893 | |
The Ash Meadows killifish (Empetrichthys merriami) was first documented by C. H. Gilbert (1893) and historically occupied numerous springs near Ash Meadows, Nye County, Nevada, US. This species was last seen in 1948 and is believed to have gone extinct in the early 1950s, likely as a result of habitat alteration and competition with and predation by introduced crayfish Procambarus clarkii, mosquitofish (Gambusia affinis), black mollies (Poecilia sphenops), and bullfrogs (Rana catesbeiana).[2]
The common name of the genus Empetrichthys has since been changed from killifish to poolfish.[2]
References
- Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2012). "Empetrichthys merriami" in FishBase. August 2012 version.
- ↑ World Conservation Monitoring Centre (1996). "Empetrichthys merriami". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.1. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 4 September 2012.
- 1 2 The Goodeid Working Group. "Empetrichthys merriami". Retrieved 4 September 2012.
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