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Death Valley pupfish

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The males, often appearing in larger sizes compared to females, turn bright blue during mating season, April through October. The females, along with premature pupfish, tend to have tanned backs with iridescent, silvery sides. Both males and females have plump bodies with rounded fins, a squashed
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head and an upturned mouth. The pupfish can withstand harsh conditions that would kill other fish: water that is 4 times more saline than the ocean, hot water up to 116 °F (47 °C), and cold water down to 32 °F (0 °C).
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The Death Valley Pupfish is a small, silvery colored fish with 6–9 vertical dark bands on its sides. It has an average length of 3.7 cm (1.5 in), with a recorded maximum of 7.8 cm (3.1 in).
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because of its extremely restricted distribution (if the two extant locations were treated as a single unit, it would be considered
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This species is known from only two locations in Death Valley: Salt Creek (subspecies
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NatureServe Network Biodiversity Location Data accessed through NatureServe Explorer
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The spring-fed pools of upper Salt Creek are the year-round habitat of pupfish
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The Salt Creek subspecies is also found at River Springs and Soda Lake, in
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to two small, isolated locations and currently classified as
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Small endangered fish native to Death Valley, California
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(2002). 350:leaving the present-day Death Valley. 696:10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a026117 640:US Geological Survey (30 June 2000). 610: 608: 435:, critically endangered and found in 7: 1504:Freshwater fish of the United States 1441:9511D3EC-4ABB-403E-B001-17C0E43538A8 1415:93602E6F-6C6E-EB79-1015-0BB92C78E914 500:IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 25: 1499:Fish of the Western United States 1489:Endemic fish of the United States 1514:Taxa named by Robert Rush Miller 1464:IUCN Red List endangered species 771: 411:at the south end of Death Valley 405:Cyprinodon nevadensis nevadensis 116: 683:Molecular Biology and Evolution 599:Center for Biological Diversity 56:Male (right) and female (left) 1529:Endangered fauna of California 963:Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad 918:Amargosa Opera House and Hotel 447:Cyprinodon nevadensis shoshone 419:Cyprinodon nevadensis amargosa 342:of fish species that lived in 293:. 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Index

Cyprinodon salinus salinus
Devils Hole pupfish

Conservation status
Endangered
IUCN 3.1
NatureServe
Scientific classification
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Eukaryota
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Cyprinodontiformes
Cyprinodontidae
Cyprinodon
Binomial name
R. R. Miller
Cyprinodontidae
Death Valley National Park
subspecies
endemic
endangered

ecosystem
Lake Manly
ice age
Death Valley National Park
endangered
IUCN

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