| Evarra | |
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| Plateau chub, (Evarra eigenmanni) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Cyprinidae |
| Clade: | Laviniinae |
| Genus: | †Evarra Woolman, 1894 |
| Type species | |
| †Evarra eigenmanni Woolman, 1895
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Evarra was a genus of small ray-finned fish in the family Cyprinidae. All species in the genus were restricted to waters in the Valley of Mexico and are now extinct due to habitat loss (their habitat dried out with remaining waters in the region highly polluted).[1][2]
- ^ Bruton, Michael N. "Have fishes had their chips? The dilemma of threatened fishes". Environmental Biology of Fishes 43: l-27, 1995.
- ^ Ceballos, G.; E.D. Pardo; L.M. Estévez; H.E. Pérez, eds. (2016). Los peces dulceacuícolas de México en peligro de extinción. ISBN 978-607-16-4087-1.