Raycraft Ranch killifish
The Raycraft Ranch killifish or Raycraft poolfish (Empetrichthys latos concavus), a subspecies of the killifish Empetrichthys latos,[2] was first described in 1948. This subspecies was restricted to a single spring on the Raycraft Ranch in the Pahrump Valley of Nye County, Nevada. It became extinct, most likely late in the 1950s,[3] as a result of groundwater extraction and the filling in of the spring,[1][4] along with competition from introduced carp species.[3]
| Raycraft Ranch killifish | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cyprinodontiformes |
| Family: | Goodeidae |
| Genus: | Empetrichthys |
| Species: | |
| Subspecies: | †E. l. concavus |
| Trinomial name | |
| †Empetrichthys latos concavus R. R. Miller, 1948 | |
References
- NatureServe (7 April 2023). "Empetrichthys latos concavus - Miller, 1948". NatureServe Network Biodiversity Location Data accessed through NatureServe Explorer. Arlington, Virginia: NatureServe. Retrieved 17 April 2023.
- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2019). "Empetrichthys latos" in FishBase. April 2019 version.
- 69 FR 17383
- "Empetrichthys latos Miller, 1948".
- Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2006). "Empetrichthys latos concavus" in FishBase. November 2006 version.
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