Graceful priapella

The graceful priapella (Priapella bonita), also known by its original Spanish name guayacon ojiazul, is a species of freshwater fish within the family Poeciliidae. It is considered to be data deficient. It is endemic to a small part of central Veracruz in Mexico.[3] It has not been recorded recently and is thought most likely to be extinct, however, the IUCN states that there is an outside chance that the species clings on in a hereto unsurveyed part of its known range and so list it as Data Deficient.[1] The American ichthyologist Seth Eugene Meek described this fish as Gambusia bonita in 1904 with the type locality given as Río Tonto at Refugio, Veracruz, Mexico.[4] It is the type species of the genus Priapella.[5]

Graceful priapella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cyprinodontiformes
Family: Poeciliidae
Genus: Priapella
Species:
P. bonita
Binomial name
Priapella bonita
(Meek, 1904)
Synonyms[2]

Gambusia bonita Meek, 1904

References
  1. Vega-Cendejas, M. & Matamoros, W. (2019). "Priapella bonita". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2019: e.T18135A1725682. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-2.RLTS.T18135A1725682.en.
  2. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). "Priapella bonita" in FishBase. August 2019 version.
  3. Ceballos, G.; E.D. Pardo; L.M. Estévez; H.E. Pérez, eds. (2016). Los peces dulceacuícolas de México en peligro de extinción. pp. 71–72. ISBN 978-607-16-4087-1.
  4. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Gambusia bonita". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 31 October 2019.
  5. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Priapella". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 31 October 2019.


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