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Teleostei (teleosts) > Cyprinodontiformes (Rivulines, killifishes and live bearers) > Profundulidae (Middle American killifishes)
Etymology: Profundulus: Latin, profundus = deep (Ref. 45335); mixtlanensis: Derived from the word 'Mixtlan' in the Nahuatl language. The Tenoch culture used to call Mixtlan the region where the new species occurs. Mixtlan is a compound word, consisting of words Mixtli (cloud) and -Tlan (place). It means 'the place of the clouds'..

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Freshwater; benthopelagic. Tropical

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Central America: Oaxaca, Mexico in the following river systems: Colorado River, Atoyaquillo River, the Atoyac river basin, and the Mixteco river basin.

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Maturity: L_m ? range ? - ? cm
Max length : 6.7 cm SL male/unsexed; (Ref. 106146)

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Dorsal soft rays (total): 10-13; Anal soft rays: 12 - 21. Profundulus mixtlanensis can be diagnosed from other congeners by the following characters: a pronounced lower jaw; 30-35 lateral scales; lack dark body spotting on the posterior half of the body caused by melanization of the base of the scales; in lateral view, dorsal profile of the head shows a concavity just above the supra-occipital crest, which quickly reaches a flat profile posteriorly, an attribute that becomes more pronounced with age; body height <2/3 of SL; pre-pectoral distance <1/3 of SL; distance between ventral and anal fins 15% of SL; caudal peduncle depth 13% of SL; post-anal length 15% of SL; head length 26-28% of SL; preorbital length 26-30% of HL; eye diameter 26-28% of SL; anal-fin length 16-17% of SL; 30-35 lateral scales; 12-21 anal-fin rays; 14-17 pectoral-fin rays (Ref. 106146).

Occurs in springs at altitudes between 710 and 2,300, but mostly above 2000 m (Ref. 106146).

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Ornelas-García, C.P., E. Martínez-Ramírez and I. Doadrio, 2015. A new species of killifish of the family Profundulidae from the highlands of the Mixteca region, Mexico. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad 86(4):926-933. (Ref. 106146)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)

Near Threatened (NT) (B1b(iii)); Date assessed: 11 September 2018

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Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

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Harmless

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Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804): PD₅₀ = 0.5039 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].

Bayesian length-weight: a=0.01349 (0.00545 - 0.03342), b=3.04 (2.82 - 3.26), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this (Sub)family-body shape (Ref. 93245).

Trophic level (Ref. 69278): 3.2 ±0.4 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives

Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153): Low vulnerability (10 of 100).

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Profundulus mixtlanensis Ornelas-García, Martínez-Ramírez & Doadrio, 2015