Three New Pupfish Species, Cyprinodon (Teleostei, Cyprinodontidae), from Chihuahua, México, and Arizona, USA

Autor: Robert Rush Miller, W. L. Minckley, Steven M. Norris
Rok vydání: 2002
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Zdroj: Copeia. 2002:687-705
ISSN: 1938-5110
0045-8511
Popis: Three new species of Cyprinodon (Teleostei, Cyprinodontidae) are described, each long recognized as distinct. Cyprinodon pisteri occupies a variety of systems and habitats in the Lago de Guzman complex basin in northern Chihuahua, Mexico. It is distinguished by its dusky to black dorsal fin and narrow or inconspicuous terminal bar on the caudal fin in mature males. Cyprinodon albivelis is distributed largely in relatively high elevation sites in the upper Rio Papigochic (Rio Yaqui basin), with a single occurrence in the Rio Santa Maria basin. It is distinguished most notably by the striking white dorsal and anal fins displayed by breeding males. Cyprinodon arcuatus is a distinctive form most similar to Cyprinodon macularius and Cyprinodon eremus and is restricted to the upper Santa Cruz River basin in southern Arizona and Northern Sonora. It is distinguished in having a sharply convex dorsal body profile form the head to dorsal fin origin and in lacking yellow or orange pigmentation on the part o...
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