This is an appeal on behalf of the Goodeid Working Groups (GWG) who are searching for anyone maintaining the critically-endangered species Xenoophorus captivus.
The majority of goodeid species are threatened with most having declined since the late 1990s and X. captivus has long been suffering from habitat loss due to pumping of groundwater and diversion of natural springs for irrigation and drinking water. Recent news received from Mexican aquarist and naturalist Juan Miguel Artigas Azas paints a depressing picture of the current situation, as he had been unable to find the species at its type locality, the Río Santa Maria, or any of the upper Pánuco localities with the habitats completely dessicated and unable to support fish of any kind. Worse, this species is very rare in the aquarium hobby, so the GWG has launched an urgent appeal to try and find any remaining populations being maintained in captivity. If you keep, or know someone who keeps, this species, especially fish of the ‘Moctezuma’, ‘Venados’ and ‘Agua de Enmedio’ populations, please get in touch with the GWG via their website http://www.goodeidwo...ggroup.com/home and you may be able to help preserve it.
Have you seen Xenoophorus captivus?
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Guest_fundulus_*
, Mar 14 2013 05:12 PM
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#5 Guest_EricaWieser_*
Posted 15 March 2013 - 12:18 AM
There's a vendor on aquabid who has them. I sent them an e-mail to contact the GWG.
He replied.
"Hi,
I've heard of the program but assumed they would be looking for rarer Goodeids like Allotoca, Characodon, and Girardinichthys. I'll sign up on that community. To my knowledge though X. Captivus is a more common Goodeid, I know many people maintaining them.
Thanks,
Billy"
(Aquabid username of Mr. Southwest. No one else has to bother him at that username)
Edited by EricaWieser, 15 March 2013 - 12:19 AM.
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