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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 ).
English: Two male specimen of the Devils Hole Pupfish (Cyprinodon diabolis) photographed in the Devil's Hole, Nevada Deutsch: Teufelskärpfling ( Cyprinodon diabolis ), männlicher Spezimen Svenska: Två hannar av Cyprinodon diabolis , en utrotningshotad art av äggläggande tandkarp som förekommer i Nevada
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 ...
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]
Before the mid-1990s, scientists counted between 200 and 250 Devils Hole pupfish each spring. But over the course of about 20 years, the fish's population count dropped to an average of about 90 ...
The waves disrupted the shallow shelf inside the Devils Hole, the pupfish’s spawning area, knocking most of the organic matter from the shelf into the 500-foot-deep cavern, the NPS said.
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 ...
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 ...