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Ameca shiner
Species of fish From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Ameca shiner (Notropis amecae) is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Leuciscidae, the shiners, daces and minnows. The Ameca shiner was described in 1986[2] from upper parts of the Ameca River drainage in Jalisco, Mexico.[3] Although already feared extinct by 1969,[3] and listed as such by the IUCN when rated in 1996,[1] a tiny population was rediscovered in 2001.[4][5] Some were brought into captivity to form the basis of a breeding program. These have been used for a reintroduction project since 2015.[6][7]
Its closest relatives are the yellow shiner and the Durango shiner.[2]
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