From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Death Valley pupfish
Death Valley pupfish
Death Valley Pupfish The pupfish is adapted to the shallow, hot, salty water
of a particular part of Salt Creek that flows above ground
year-round, and is also sometimes referred to as Salt
Pupfish.
Creek Pupfish
A subspecies (Cyprinodon salinus milleri) lives in nearby
Cottonball Marsh. They are both IUCN Red List endan-
gered species.
See also
• Pupfish
• Cyprinodon - Genus
Death Valley pupfish spawning in Salt Creek • Amargosa Pupfish Station
Conservation status
Other local Cyprinodons
• Tecopa Pupfish, Cyprinodon nevadensis calidae
(extinct)
• Saratoga pupfish, Cyprinodon nevadensis nevadensis
Endangered (IUCN 2.3) (subspecies)
Found at Saratoga Springs at the south end of
Scientific classification
Death Valley.
Kingdom: Animalia • Amargosa pupfish, Cyprinodon nevadensis amargosa
Found in the Amargosa River northwest of Saratoga
Phylum: Chordata
Springs.
Class: Actinopterygii • Devil’s Hole pupfish, Cyprinodon diabolis, endangered.
Order: Cyprinodontiformes Found in Devil’s Hole 37 miles (60 km) east of
Furnace Creek, in western Nevada.
Family: Cyprinodontidae • Shoshone Pupfish, Cyprinodon nevadensis shoshone
Genus: Cyprinodon • Desert pupfish ‘’Cyprinodon macularius’’
• Owens pupfish ‘’Cyprinodon radiosus’’
Species: C. salinus
Binomial name Index
Cyprinodon salinus • Category: Cyprinodon (Pupfish)
Miller, 1943
Subspecies References
See text. • "Cyprinodon salinus". Integrated Taxonomic
Information System. http://www.itis.gov/servlet/
The Death Valley pupfish Cyprinodon salinus salinus, is
pupfish, SingleRpt/
found in Death Valley National Park. SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=165642.
Retrieved 11 March 2006.
• NPS: Fish in Death Valley
Description • FishBase: Cyprinodon salinus salinus
The Death Valley pupfish is a species of fish that is the
last known survivor of what is thought to have been a
large ecosystem of fish species that lived in Lake Manly,
External links
which dried up at the end of the last ice age leaving the • Scientific paper on the Phenotypic Plasticity of
present day Death Valley in California. Death Valley Pupfish
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Death Valley pupfish
• Scientific paper on the genetics of Death Valley • Scientific paper on the importance of groundwater
Pupfish to the Salt Creek Pupfish
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Categories:
• IUCN Red List endangered species
• Cyprinodon
• Death Valley
• Fauna of the Mojave Desert
• Fish of the Western United States
• Endemic fauna of California
• Natural history of Inyo County, California
• Endangered fauna of California
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