Syncaris pasadenae

Syncaris pasadenae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Family: Atyidae
Genus: Syncaris
Species: S. pasadenae
Binomial name
Syncaris pasadenae
(Kingsley, 1897)
Synonyms
  • Caridina pasadenae Kingsley, 1897
  • Syncaris Trewi Holmes, 1900

Syncaris pasadenae was a species of shrimp in the family Atyidae, which is believed to be extinct.[1]

It lived in the drainage basin of the Los Angeles River, near Pasadena, San Gabriel and Warm Creek,[2] and was originally described from material collected on the site where the Rose Bowl now stands.[3] A reference to "freshwater shrimps" in a tributary of the Santa Ana River from 1927 may also refer to S. pasadenae.

Its habitat was destroyed by channelization of streams.[3] It has not been seen alive since 1933, despite extensive searching, and is the only Recent species of shrimp to have gone extinct.[4]

References

  1. World Conservation Monitoring Centre (1996). "Syncaris pasadenae". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2009.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved October 2, 2010.
  2. Joel W. Martin & Mary K. Wicksten (2004). "Review and description of the freshwater atyid shrimp genus Syncaris Holmes, 1900, in California" (PDF). Journal of Crustacean Biology. 24 (3): 447–462. doi:10.1651/C-2451.
  3. 1 2 Nancy Hamlett (July 28, 2008). "Geology & Geography". Bernard Field Station. The Claremont Colleges.
  4. S. De Grave; Y. Cai & A. Anker (2008). E. V. Balian; C. Lévêque; H. Segers & K. Martens, eds. "Freshwater Animal Diversity Assessment". Hydrobiologia. 595 (1): 287–293. doi:10.1007/s10750-007-9024-2. |chapter= ignored (help)
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