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The Catarina pupfish (Megupsilon aporus) was a diminutive species of fish in the family Cyprinodontidae, first described in 1972. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It was endemic to a spring in Nuevo León , Mexico. In an attempt of saving the rapidly declining species, some were brought into captivity in the late 1980s and early 1990s, but it proved very difficult ...
Pupfish are a group of small killifish belonging to ten genera of the family Cyprinodontidae of ray-finned fish. Pupfish are especially noted for being found in extreme and isolated situations. [ 1 ] They are primarily found in North America, South America, and the Caribbean region.
In 1967, pupfish were labeled an endangered species, one of the first in the United States. Before the mid-1990s, scientists counted between 200 and 250 Devils Hole pupfish each spring.
Santa Cruz pupfish (Cyprinodon arcuatus) Villa Lopez pupfish (Cyprinodon ceciliae) Cachorrito de la Trinidad (Cyprinodon inmemoriam) Perritos de sandia (Cyprinodon spp.) Catarina pupfish (Megupsilon aporus) Ash Meadows killifish (Empetrichthys merriami) Whiteline topminnow (Fundulus albolineatus) Amistad gambusia (Gambusia amistadensis)
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 ...
The highly endangered Devils Hole pupfish have previously survived seiches, most recently in 2018, 2019, and 2022, NPS said. The fish compensate by increasing spawning activity. The fish ...
La Palma pupfish: Cyprinodon longidorsalis: Bolsón de Sandía, Nuevo León, Mexico Last recorded in the wild in 1994, as a result of groundwater extraction. [106] Charco Palma pupfish: Cyprinodon veronicae: Disappeared from the wild in 1995 as a result of groundwater extraction, which caused in 1997 the complete drying of the spring it was ...
The endangered pupfish in Death Valley National Park had their world rocked Thursday when the magnitude 7.0 earthquake that struck off the Northern California coast sent tremors through their ...