Bighead pupfish
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| Cachorrito cabezon | |
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| Scientific classification Edit this classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cyprinodontiformes |
| Family: | Cyprinodontidae |
| Genus: | Cyprinodon |
| Species: | C. pachycephalus
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| Binomial name | |
| Cyprinodon pachycephalus W. L. Minckley & C. O. Minckley, 1986
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The bighead pupfish (Cyprinodon pachycephalus), known in Spanish as cachorrito cabezon, is a critically endangered species of pupfish in the family Cyprinodontidae.[2] It is endemic to an area covering less than 1 km2 (0.4 mi2) at San Diego de Alcala in the Conchos River basin, Chihuahua of Mexico. It lives in hot springs, their outflows and an impoundment pool in water that ranges at least from 25 to 49 °C (77–120 °F).[1]
See also
[edit | edit source]- Cyprinodon julimes – a related pupfish that also lives in hot springs in Mexico
References
[edit | edit source]Lua error in Module:Taxonbar at line 165: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
Categories:
- IUCN Red List critically endangered species
- Cyprinodon
- Endemic fish of Mexico
- Freshwater fish of Mexico
- Critically endangered fish
- Critically endangered biota of Mexico
- Critically endangered fauna of North America
- Taxa named by Wendell L. Minckley
- Taxa named by Charles Olin Minckley
- Fish described in 1986
- Cyprinodontiformes stubs