Pentagenia robusta

Taxonomy

Assessment Information

Geographic Range

Habitat and Ecology

Bibliography

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
ANIMALIA	ARTHROPODA	INSECTA	EPHEMEROPTERA	EPHEMERIDAE

Scientific Name:

Pentagenia robusta

Species Authority:

McDunnough, 1926

Common Name/s:

English

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Robust Burrowing Mayfly, Robust Pentagenian Burrowing Mayfly

Synonym/s:

Pantagenia robusta McDunnough, 1926 [orth. error]

Taxonomic Notes:

Note correction to scientific spelling of Pantagenia to Pentagenia.

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria:

Extinct ver 2.3

Year Published:

1996

Annotations:

Needs updating

Assessor/s:

World Conservation Monitoring Centre

Justification:
Known only from the Ohio River area. The type specimen was collected in 1926 (McCafferty 1994). This riverine species was probably sensitive to changes in river flow and water quality, especially increasing sedimentation.

History:

1996	–	Extinct
1994	–	Extinct (Groombridge 1994)
1990	–	Extinct (IUCN 1990)
1988	–	Extinct (IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre 1988)
1986	–	Extinct (IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre 1986)

Geographic Range [top]

Countries:	Regionally extinct: United States (Indiana, Kentucky, Minnesota, Ohio)
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Habitat and Ecology [top]

Systems:	Terrestrial; Freshwater

Systems:

Terrestrial; Freshwater

Bibliography [top]

	Baillie, J. and Groombridge, B. 1996. 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. International Union for Conservation of Nature, Gland, Switzerland. Groombridge, B. (ed.). 1994. 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK. IUCN. 1990. 1990 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK. McCafferty, W.P. 1994. Distributional and classificatory supplement to the burrowing mayflies (Ephemeroptera: Ephemeroidea) of the United States. Entomological News 105 (January and February, 1994): 1-13.

Baillie, J. and Groombridge, B. 1996. 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. International Union for Conservation of Nature, Gland, Switzerland.

Groombridge, B. (ed.). 1994. 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

IUCN. 1990. 1990 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

McCafferty, W.P. 1994. Distributional and classificatory supplement to the burrowing mayflies (Ephemeroptera: Ephemeroidea) of the United States. Entomological News 105 (January and February, 1994): 1-13.

Citation:	World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1996. Pentagenia robusta. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 25 May 2012.
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