Mezquital pupfish

The Mezquital pupfish (Cyprinodon meeki) is a species of pupfish in the family Cyprinodontidae.[2] It is endemic to Durango in Mexico. This species was described by Robert Rush Miller in 1976 from a pond which was fed by hot springs within the basin of the Río del Tunal, approximately 9 kilometres (5.6 mi) east of Durango City at an altitude of about 1,880 metres (6,170 ft).[3] The specific name honors the American ichthyologist Seth Eugene Meek (1859-1914), a pioneer of the study of the freshwater fish of Mexico.[4]

Mezquital pupfish
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cyprinodontiformes
Family: Cyprinodontidae
Genus: Cyprinodon
Species:
C. meeki
Binomial name
Cyprinodon meeki

References
  1. Lyons, T.J. & Contreras MacBeath, T. (2019). "Cyprinodon meeki". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2019: e.T6159A3105308. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-2.RLTS.T6159A3105308.en.
  2. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). "Cyprinodon meeki" in FishBase. August 2019 version.
  3. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Cyprinodon meeki". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 15 October 2019.
  4. Christopher Scharpf; Kenneth J. Lazara (26 April 2019). "Order CYPRINODONTIFORMES: Families PANTANODONTIDAE, CYPRINODONTIDAE, PROFUNDULIDAE, GOODEIDAE, FUNDULIDAE and FLUVIPHYLACIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 15 October 2019.


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