Chirostoma compressum de Buén, 1940
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Chirostoma grandocule compressum de Buen, 1940
Conservation Status
Missing
Last record: 1940 or earlier (Barbour, 1974)
The species may have become extinct in 1941 when its only known habitat, Lake Cuitzeo, dried up during the winter, and no further specimens appear to have been collected leading to it being considered extinct (Barbour, 1974; Soto-Galera et al., 1999). However, it is not listed by (Jelks et al., 2008; Burkhead, 2012) so its more recent status needs to be ascertained.
Distribution
Lake Cuitzeo, Michoacán, Mexico (western)
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Only two specimens exist (or existed)
Media
References
Original scientific description:
de Buén, F. (1940). Huevos, crias, larvas y jovenes de Chirostoma del Lago de Patzcuaro. Trab. Estac. Limnol. Patzcuaro 3: 1-14.
Other references:
Barbour, Clyde D. (1974). Redescription and Taxonomic Status of Chirostoma compressum, a Mexican Atherinid Fish. Copeia 1974(1): 277-279. [Abstract]
Burkhead, Noel M. (2012). Extinction Rates in North American Freshwater Fishes, 1900–2010. BioScience 62(9): 798-808.
Jelks, Howard L., Walsh, Stephen J., Burkhead, Noel M., Contreras-Balderas, Salvador, Díaz-Pardo, Edmundo, Hendrickson, Dean A., Lyons, J., Mandrak, Nicholas E., McCormick, Frank, Nelson, Joseph F., Platania, Steven P., Porter, Brady A., Renaud, Claude B., Schmitter-Soto, Juan Jacabo, Taylor, Eric B. and Warren, Melvin L. Jr. (2008). Conservation status of imperiled North American freshwater and diadromous fishes. Fisheries 33(8): 372-407.
Lyons, J., González-Hernandéz, G., Soto-Galera, E. and Guzmán-Arroyo, M. (1998). Decline of freshwater fishes and fisheries in selected drainages of west-central Mexico. Fisheries 23(4): 10-18.
Soto-Galera, Eduardo et al. (1999). Change in Fish Fauna as Indication of Aquatic Ecosystem Condition in Río Grande de Morelia–Lago de Cuitzeo Basin, Mexico. Environmental Management 24: 133-140. https://doi.org/10.1007/s002679900221