Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various small deep-bodied fishes of the family Cyprinidontidae, chiefly found in isolated habitats such as desert springs and streams of Mexico and the southwest United States.
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Examples
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The world of the Devils Hole pupfish is a small place.
Science and Law 2006
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Our Southwest deserts are home to endangered Sonoran pronghorn antelopes, desert tortoises, kangaroo rats, pupfish, springsnails, and other desert species that are adapted to very specialized niches and therefore particularly vulnerable to changes in climate and habitat.
Leda Huta: A Marshall Plan for Nature: How to Protect Endangered Species from Climate Change Leda Huta 2011
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We walk a boardwalk in the Point of Rocks area to King's Pool, where we watch the silvery blue pupfish dart about like liquid lightening.
Richard Bangs: Death Valley Daze, Part II Richard Bangs 2011
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But Fish and Wildlife successfully took over the land and designed it a National Wildlife Refuge in 1984, so that the pupfish and all in the ecosystem are now protected.
Richard Bangs: Death Valley Daze, Part II Richard Bangs 2011
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Turns out the stranger was part of a land scam, draining a vast ancient underground water system and the above-ground spring-fed wetlands, which housed, among other creatures, the endangered pupfish.
Richard Bangs: Death Valley Daze, Part II Richard Bangs 2011
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Our Southwest deserts are home to endangered Sonoran pronghorn antelopes, desert tortoises, kangaroo rats, pupfish, springsnails, and other desert species that are adapted to very specialized niches and therefore particularly vulnerable to changes in climate and habitat.
Leda Huta: A Marshall Plan for Nature: How to Protect Endangered Species from Climate Change Leda Huta 2011
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It was a boozy place... some 600 hard-rock miners lived down the road... and the menu featured fried pupfish from the nearby Amargosa River.
Richard Bangs: Death Valley Daze, Part I Richard Bangs 2011
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We walk a boardwalk in the Point of Rocks area to King's Pool, where we watch the silvery blue pupfish dart about like liquid lightening.
Richard Bangs: Death Valley Daze, Part II Richard Bangs 2011
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It was a boozy place... some 600 hard-rock miners lived down the road... and the menu featured fried pupfish from the nearby Amargosa River.
Richard Bangs: Death Valley Daze, Part I Richard Bangs 2011
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But Fish and Wildlife successfully took over the land and designed it a National Wildlife Refuge in 1984, so that the pupfish and all in the ecosystem are now protected.
Richard Bangs: Death Valley Daze, Part II Richard Bangs 2011
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