Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
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. As of August 2006, 120 nominal species and 9 subspecies were ...
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)
A large earthen and rock dam enlarged the original pool, and a series of seeps and secondary outflows created distributaries that ran 1–1.5 km (0.62–0.93 mi) downstream. The Potosi pupfish shared the pools with the Catarina pupfish (Megupsilon aporus) and the crayfish Cambarellus alvarezi, which are both fully extinct.
A member of the Cyprinidae, carp spawn in times between April and August, largely dependent upon the climate and conditions they live in. Oxygen levels of the water, availability of food, size of each fish, age, number of times the fish has spawned before and water temperature are all factors known to effect when and how many eggs each carp ...
Some of these habitats can be rather extreme; the only natural habitat of the Devils Hole pupfish (Cyprinodon diabolis) is Devils Hole: a cavern at least 91 metres (299 ft) deep, branching out from a small opening at the surface, approximately 1.8 metres (6 ft) by 5.5 metres (18 ft) wide.
Cyprinodon rubrofluviatilis, known as the Red River pupfish, is a species of pupfish from the United States. It is found only in the Red River of the South and Brazos River drainages of Texas and Oklahoma. [2] It grows to a total length of 5.8 cm (2.3 in) and feeds on midge larvae and other insects. [3]
Tecopa pupfish: Cyprinodon nevadensis calidae: Tecopa Hot Springs, California Last recorded before 1972. [102] Catarina pupfish: Megupsilon aporus: Potosí Spring, Nuevo León, Mexico Last recorded in the wild in 1994, and in captivity in 2012. Extinct due to groundwater extraction and introduced fish species. [103]