Atherinopsidae

Chignahuapan Silverside

Poblana ferdebueni

Critically Endangered Atherinopsid Fish in the Record

• Silver
• Tropical
• Regional distribution
• Freshwater fish
• Central America and the Caribbean
• North America
• Tropical fish

Poblana ferdebueni, the Chignahuapan silverside is a species of neotropical silverside endemic to Mexico. This species was described by Aurelio Solórzano Preciado and Irma López-Guerrero in 1965 from a type locality of Laguna de Almoloya, Chignahuapan Lake, Puebla State, Mexico and was given the specific name ferdebueni to honour the Spanish ichthyologist Fernando de Buen y Lozano (1895-1962) who had originally proposed the genus Poblana.