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These pupfish are able to take advantage of different food sources so they can all coexist. One species feeds on only the scales of other pupfish. Another has a modified jaw to be able to eat snails and ostracods. Before the 1990s, Lake Chichancanab, in Mexico, was full of brackish water and another five species of pupfish were found there.
A school of Death Valley pupfish, seen in Salt Creek in 2019. This species is known from only two locations in Death Valley: Salt Creek (subspecies salinus) at about 49 m (161 ft) below sea level, and Cottonball Marsh (subspecies milleri), at about 80 m (260 ft) below sea level. [1]
Cyprinodon is a genus of pupfishes found in waters that range from fresh to hypersaline.The genus is primarily found in Mexico, the Caribbean Islands and southern United States (Arizona, California, Florida, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas), but C. variegatus occurs as far north as Massachusetts and along the entire Gulf of Mexico coastline, and C. dearborni and C. variegatus are found ...
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 ).
Comanche Springs pupfish (Cyprinodon elegans) Sonoyta pupfish (Cyprinodon eremus) Carbonera pupfish (Cyprinodon fontinalis) Largescale pupfish (Cyprinodon macrolepis) Cachorrito gigante (Cyprinodon maya) Owens pupfish (Cyprinodon radiosus) Death Valley pupfish (Cyprinodon salinus) Cachorrito boxeador (Cyprinodon simus) White Sands pupfish ...
The desert pupfish (Cyprinodon macularius) is a rare species of bony fish in the family Cyprinodontidae.It is a small fish, typically less than 7.62 cm (3 in) in length. Males are generally larger than females, and have bright-blue coloration, while females and juveniles are silvery or ta
The boxer pupfish (Cyprinodon simus) is a small species of pupfish in the family Cyprinodontidae. [2] It is endemic to Lake Chichancanab in Quintana Roo, Mexico. [1] [3]In almost all places, different Cyprinodon species do not overlap in their range, but there are two notable exceptions and one of these is Lake Chichancanab, which is inhabited by C. simus, C. beltrani, C. esconditus, C ...
The Arabian pupfish inhabits a wide variety of water bodies, though it prefers hard alkaline. It is an extremely euryhaline fish, capable of tolerating salinities from below 1 ppt (pure freshwater) to hypersaline conditions of almost 140 ppt. [ 5 ] For reference, seawater has an average salinity of 35 ppt. Throughout its range, the Arabian ...