Critically Endangered
Gambusia hurtadoi
Gambusia hurtadoi
Gambusia hurtadoi is a livebearer in the family Poeciliidae (order Cyprinodontiformes), recorded as Critically Endangered.
The livebearer
It grows to 3.5 cm (1.4 in) total length.
The species was described in 1957 by Carl Leavitt Hubbs and Victor G.
Range and habitat
It is endemic to Chihuahua in Mexico, where it is known as guayacon de Hacienda Dolores. Springer with the type locality given as El Ojo de la Hacienda Dolores, 7 miles south of Jiminez, Chihuahua, the spring to that this species is endemic.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Breeding
Livebearers drop free-swimming young. Many species occupy springs, lakes, or ditches with little room to retreat.
Small desert or forest fishes in this order live in water that can vanish. The egg bank, if there is one, is the only reserve.
In crisis
Gambusia hurtadoi is Critically Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Gambusia hurtadoi, Wikidata item Q302451. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
