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The Devils Hole pupfish (Cyprinodon diabolis) is a critically endangered species of the family Cyprinodontidae (pupfishes) found only in Devils Hole, a water-filled cavern in the US state of Nevada. It was first described as a species in 1930 and is most closely related to C. nevadensis and the Death Valley pupfish ( C. salinus ).
Devils Hole pupfish, Cyprinodon diabolis, from Death Valley National Park. Devils Hole is the only natural habitat of the Devils Hole pupfish, which survives despite the hot, oxygen-poor water. [19] Devils Hole "may be the smallest habitat in the world containing the entire population of a vertebrate species". [4]
The Devils Hole pupfish reached a 25-year high spring count of 191 fish. For years, the fish’s population dwindled, hitting an “all-time low of 35 in 2013,” the National Park Service said in ...
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Cyprinodon variegatus is the most widespread member of the genus. Cyprinodon diabolis is very rare; its entire native range is the Devils Hole in Nevada. A few Cyprinodon species have quite large ranges, notably C. variegatus, but the vast majority have small ranges, typically restricted to one or two Mexican states or U.S. states, Hispaniola, or a Bahaman island.
Several pupfish species are extinct and most extant species are listed. In the U.S., the most well-known pupfish species may be the Devils Hole pupfish, native to Devils Hole on the Nevada side of Death Valley National Park. Since 1995 the Devils Hole pupfish has been in a nearly steady decline, where it was close to extinction at 35–68 fish ...
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Dean's Blue Hole, an underwater cavern, in the Bahamas may be popular with tourists and freedivers, but, according to a 60 Minutes report, many locals believe it was "dug by the devil."