DESCRIPTION: The desert pupfish is a small, silver-colored fish with dark vertical bars on its sides. It has a short, compressed head, an upturned mouth, a thick, chubby body, and rounded fins. Males ...

Cousins to the well-known guppy, pupfish are not only playful but are also remarkably tolerant of extreme environmental conditions. The desert pupfish is no exception. Dwelling in pools, marshes, ...

or receding waters — but several desert fish were separated from the larger population and trapped in Devils Hole. There, a tiny sub-population — the Devils Hole pupfish (Cyprinodon diabolis ...

Today, various groups work to protect the pupfish including the Desert Fishes Council, a nonprofit that was founded in 1969 in response to groundwater pumping. How to See the Devils Hole Pupfish A ...

The feds are proposing protections for a tiny desert-dwelling fish native to the Pecos River basin of New Mexico. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has announced plans to list the Pecos pupfish ...

The aquatic marvel in question is the Devils Hole pupfish. The species lives nowhere in the world but inside a secluded cave, the depth of which is unknown, in a section of Ash Meadows National ...