Delicate light-eyed sarcophagus
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The graceful light- eye fish or spotted blue-eye fish ( Priapella bonita ) is a most likely extinct freshwater fish species from the Poeciliidae family . It was endemic to Mexico .
description
The graceful light-eyed potlet reached a length of 5 to 6 cm. His body was elongated and a little compressed. The number of dorsal rays was 7 to 8, the anal rays 9 and the rows of scales on the lateral line 8 to 32. It was dark olive on the top and white on the underside. Each scale had a light border that formed side strips along the rows of scales. The caudal fin had a black tip. In the center of the tail stalk was a distinctive narrow dark ray that was more pronounced in the male than in the female. The iris was black.
distribution
He lived in the Río Motzorongo and Río Refugio , two tributaries of the Río Papaloapan in the Mexican state of Veracruz .
die out
Its extinction is believed to be due to introduced fish species and habitat loss. It was last detected in 1982.
literature
- Seth Eugene Meek: The Fresh-water Fishes of Mexico North of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. 1904.
- Robert Rush Miller; Wendell L. Minckley, Steven Mark Norris: Freshwater Fishes of Mexico . University of Chicago Press. 2006, ISBN 0-226-52604-6 .
Web links
- Delicate light-eyed sardogon on Fishbase.org (English)
- Priapella bonita in the endangered Red List species the IUCN 2007. Posted by: World Conservation Monitoring Center, 1996. Retrieved on 13 September, 2007.