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Amia ocellicauda Richardson, 1836

Emerald bowfin
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Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | Catalog of Fishes(genus, species) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS | Cloffa

Holostei (gars and bowfins) > Amiiformes (Bowfins) > Amiidae (Bowfins)
Etymology: Amia: Greek, amia = a kind of shark (Ref. 45335).

Issue
The species was ressurrected in Ref.132277. This reference cannot be used for nomenclatural purpose.

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Freshwater; benthopelagic. Subtropical

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North America West: from the Lake Pontchartrain system west in Gulf of Mexico draining rivers to the Colorado River system in Texas, USA, throughout the Mississippi River Basin, the Great Lakes Basin, the St Lawrence River system, including Lake Champlain, and the Atlantic draining Connecticut River system (Ref. 132277).

Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

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Main reference Upload your references | References | Coordinator | Collaborators

Brownstein, C.D., D. Kim, O.D. Orr, G.M. Hogue, B.H. Tracy, M.W. Pugh, R. Singer, C. Myles-McBurney, J.M. Mollish, J.W. Simmons, S.R. David, Watkins-Colwell. G., E.A. Hoffman and T.J. Near, 2022. Hidden species diversity in an iconic living fossil vertebrate. Biology Letters, 18(11)[20220395]:1-6. (Ref. 132277)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-1)

Not Evaluated 

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Harmless





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FAO - Publication: search | FishSource |

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AFORO (otoliths) | Aquatic Commons | BHL | Cloffa | Websites from users | Check FishWatcher | CISTI | Catalog of Fishes: genus, species | DiscoverLife | ECOTOX | FAO - Publication: search | Faunafri | Fishipedia | Fishtrace | GloBI | Google Books | Google Scholar | Google | IGFA World Record | OneZoom | Open Tree of Life | Otolith Atlas of Taiwan Fishes | PubMed | Reef Life Survey | Socotra Atlas | TreeBase | Tree of Life | Wikipedia: Go, Search | Zoobank | Zoological Record

Estimates based on models

Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804):  PD50 = 1.2520   [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Resilience (Ref. 120179):  Low, minimum population doubling time 4.5 - 14 years (Preliminary K or Fecundity.).
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153):  High to very high vulnerability (65 of 100). 🛈