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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 ...
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]
Cyprinodon longidorsalis, the cachorrito de charco palmal or La Palma pupfish, is a species of fish in the family Cyprinodontidae. It was endemic to the Ojo de Agua la Presa in southwestern Nuevo Leon state in Mexico , but became extinct in the wild in 1994 due to habitat loss (now survives only in captivity).
After a 1952 presidential proclamation declared Devils Hole a part of Death Valley National Monument, renamed Death Valley National Park in 1994, the pupfish was listed as an endangered species in ...
Shoshone pupfish are solely found in the Shoshone Spring habitat, cannot disperse to other regions, and likely will not be able to adapt if relocated. Extreme habitat alteration has shifted the Shoshone pupfish to primarily rely on artificial refuge areas established in the spring, including a series of artificial ponds that line the stream ...
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 ...
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 ).
Cyprinodon nevadensis is a species of pupfish in the genus Cyprinodon. [3] The species is also known as the Amargosa pupfish, [3] but that name may also refer to one subspecies, Cyprinodon nevadensis amargosae. [4] All six subspecies are or were endemic to very isolated locations in the Mojave Desert of California and Nevada.