Priorities
for Captive Maintenance of Mexican Goodeids – January 2006
Received
from Dr. John Lyons, 17 January 2006. He just returned from Mexico compiling
this.
Extinct
(no captive populations available):
Characodon garmani
Extinct in the Wild (captive populations available):
Skiffia francesae
Critically
Endangered:
Allodontichthys polylepis, Allotoca goslinei
Allotoca maculata, Allotoca meeki
Allotoca zacapuensis, Ameca splendens
Ataeniobius toweri, Chapalichthys pardalis
Chapalichthys peraticus, Characodon audax*
Characodon lateralis*, Girardinichthys viviparus
Hubbsina (Girardinichthys) ireneae, Hubbsina (Girardinichthys) turneri
Neotoca (Skiffia) bilineata , Neophoorus (Allotoca) regalis
Xenoophorus captivus*, Zoogoneticus tequila
Endangered:
Allodontichthys hubbsi, Allotoca dugesii*
Skiffia lermae, Skiffia multipunctata
Xenotoca eiseni*
Threatened:
Allotoca diazi , Girardinichthys multiradiatus
Vulnerable:
Allodontichthys tamazulae, Allodontichthys zonistius
Alloophorus robustus*, Allotoca catarinae*
Chapalichthys encaustus, Goodea gracilis (=atripinnis?)
Ilyodon cortesae, Ilyodon whitei* (inc. I. lennoni)
Xenotaenia resolanae, Xenotoca melanosoma
Zoogoneticus quitzeoensis*
Relatively Secure:
Goodea atripinnis* (inc. G. luitpoldi),
Ilyodon furcidens* (inc I. xantusi)
Xenotoca variata*
Note: Status categories are not official Mexican government designations,
but are based (with some updates) on Domingúez-Domingúez, O., N. Mercado-Silva,
and J. Lyons. 2005. Conservation status of Mexican goodeids: Problems,
perspectives, and solutions. In press, Proceedings of the International
Livebearer Conference, and De La Vega-Salazar, M. Y., E. Avila-Luna, and C. Macías-Garcia.
2003. Ecological evaluation of local extinction: the case of two genera of
endemic Mexican fish, Zoogoneticus and Skiffia. Biodiversity and Conservation
12:2043-2056. Species with an asterisk have large amounts of morphological
and/or genetic diversity and have distinctive populations worthy of captive
maintenance.