Kingdom Animalia Subfamily Empetrichthyinae Scientific name Empetrichthys merriami Higher classification Empetrichthys Order Cyprinodontiformes | Family Goodeidae Genus Empetrichthys Phylum Chordata Rank Species | |
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Similar Empetrichthys, Empetrichthys latos, Crenichthys, Clear Lake splittail, Railroad Valley springfish | ||
The Ash Meadows killifish (Empetrichthys merriami) was first documented by C. H. Gilbert in 1893 and historically occupied numerous springs near Ash Meadows, Nye County, Nevada, United States. This species was last seen in 1948 and is believed to have gone extinct in the early 1950s, likely as a result of habitat alteration and competition with and predation by introduced crayfish Procambarus clarkii, mosquitofish (Gambusia affinis), black mollies (Poecilia sphenops), and bullfrogs (Rana catesbeiana).
The common name of the genus Empetrichthys has since been changed from killifish to poolfish.
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