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Death Valley pupfish
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 Death Valley pupfish spawning in Salt Creek
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The Death Valley pupfish, Cyprinodon salinus salinus, 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 which dried up at the end of the last ice age leaving the present day Death Valley in California. 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 Creek Pupfish. A subspecies lives in nearby Cottonwood Marsh.
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- Cottonball Marsh pupfish, Cyprinodon salinus milleri, threatened
- Found in Cottonball Marsh on the west side of central Death Valley.
- Found at Saratoga Springs at the south end of Death Valley.
- Found in the Amargosa River northwest of Saratoga Springs.
- Devil's Hole pupfish, Cyprinodon diabolis, endangered
- Found in Devil's Hole 37 miles (60 km) east of Furnace Creek, in western Nevada.
- Cyprinodon salinus (TSN 165642). Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Accessed on 11 March 2006.
- NPS: Fish in Death Valley
- FishBase: Cyprinodon salinus salinus
- Scientific paper on the genetics of Death Valley Pupfish
- Scientific paper on the importance of groundwater to the Salt Creek Pupfish
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| Fauna, Flora and Minerals | Borax • Chuckwalla • Death Valley monkeyflower • Death Valley pupfish • Devil's Hole pupfish • Salt Creek Pupfish |
| History | Death Valley Railroad • Greenwater • Lake Manly • Skidoo • Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad • Twenty mule team |
| Places | Amargosa Range / River / Valley • Ash Meadows NWR • Badwater • Ballarat • Beatty • Chloride City • Death Valley Junction • Eureka Dunes • Furnace Creek • Panamint City / Range / Springs / Valley • Racetrack • Rhyolite • Scotty's Castle • Stovepipe Wells • Telescope Peak • Trona • Ubehebe Crater • Zabriskie Point |
| Transportation | CA SR127 • CA SR178 • CA SR190 • NV SR373 •NV SR374 • Trona Railway • US 95 |