Stumptooth minnow

Stumptooth minnow
Extinct
Extinct (1930) (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Division: Teleostei
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Leuciscidae
Subfamily: Pogonichthyinae
Genus: †Stypodon
Garman, 1881
Species:
†S. signifer
Binomial name
†Stypodon signifer
Garman, 1881

The stumptooth minnow (Stypodon signifer) is an extinct species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Leuciscidae, the shiners, daces and minnows. This species was endemic to Mexico, being found only in the Valle de Parras in the Chihuahuan Desert in Coahuila state. It is thought to have become extinct around 1930.

Sources

  1. 1 2 World Conservation Monitoring Centre (2019). "Stypodon signifer". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2019 e.T21120A2774500. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-2.RLTS.T21120A2774500.en. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  2. ↑ Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Styodon". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 21 March 2025.