Relationship with humans Cypriniformes
the thicktail chub (gila crassicauda) globally extinct since 1960.
habitat destruction, damming of upland rivers, pollution , in cases overfishing food or pet trade have driven cypriniformes brink of extinction or beyond. in particular, cyprinidae of southwestern north america have been severely affected; considerable number went entirely extinct after settlement europeans. example, in 1900 thicktail chub (gila crassicauda) common freshwater fish found in california; 70 years later not single living individual existed.
few if red-tailed black sharks (epalzeorhynchos bicolor) remain in wild today.
the well-known red-tailed black shark (epalzeorhynchos bicolor) mae klong river of bridge on river kwai fame possibly survives in captivity. ironically, while pollution , other forms of overuse humans have driven native home, bred aquarium fish trade thousands. yarqon bleak (acanthobrama telavivensis) yarqon river had rescued captivity imminent extinction; new populations have apparently been established again captive stock. balitoridae , cobitidae, meanwhile, contain large number of species nothing known except how , first found.
globally extinct cypriniformes species are:
acanthobrama hulensis
gökçe balığı, alburnus akili
barbus microbarbis
snake river sucker, chasmistes muriei
chondrostoma scodrense
cyprinus yilongensis
mexican dace, evarra bustamantei
plateau chub, evarra eigenmanni
endorheic chub, evarra tlahuacensis
thicktail chub, gila crassicauda
pahranagat spinedace, lepidomeda altivelis
harelip sucker, moxostoma lacerum
ameca shiner, notropis amecae
durango shiner, notropis aulidion
phantom shiner, notropis orca
salado shiner, notropis saladonis
clear lake splittail, pogonichthys ciscoides
las vegas dace, rhinichthys deaconi
stumptooth minnow, stypodon signifer
telestes ukliva
^ gsmfc (2005), ffwcc [2008]
^ http://www.zfin.org
^ iucn (2007)
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