San Pedro Mezquital River

Río San Pedro Mezquital
Country Mexico

The Río San Pedro Mezquital is a river of Mexico.

The Durango shiner

The extinct Durango shiner was a fish native to the Rio Tunal, which forms the headwaters of the San Pedro Mezquital, a Pacific slope river rising near Durango City, Durango, Mexico (Chernoff and Miller 1986). It was taken there only in 1951 and 1961.[1]

See also

References

  1. Miller, Robert R.; Williams, James D.; Williams, Jack E. (1989). "Extinctions of North American Fishes During the past Century". Fisheries. 14:6: 22–38. doi:10.1577/1548-8446(1989)014<0022:EONAFD>2.0.CO;2. Retrieved 5 October 2015.


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