Cyprinodon

This page is about a genus that contains extinct and extant species; species marked with † are extinct. Before formal naming or identification, this organism was known as the following on this wiki:
**Perritos de Sandia**

## Statistics

### Diet

Carnivorous

*Cyprinodon* is a genus of pupfish that has lived in the Americas since the Late Miocene.

## History

Perritos de Sandia was an undescribed group of cyprinids from the Ojo de Julimes, Nuevo León, Sandia Basin. This morph was observed by Contreras (1991) and said to be a new species, but Echelle and Echelle (1998) consider it a population of *C. eximius*. This population is said to have gone extinct in Mexico, but they may survive in the United States.

## Ecology

*Cyprinodon* lives in rivers and is very small. *Cyprinodon* usually eat algae and other small water endemic animals. Pupfish live mostly in North America, in small springs and rivers. It is very easy for these small animals to go extinct because they are abundant prey sources for larger (sometimes invasive) animals.

## Species

* *C. albivelis* (Whitefin pupfish)
* *C. alvarezi* (Potosi pupfish)
* †*C. arcuatus* (Santa Cruz pupfish)
* *C. artifrons* (Yucatán pupfish)
* *C. atrorus* (Bolson pupfish)
* *C. beltrani* (Blackfin pupfish)
* *C. bifasciatus* (Cuatro Cienegas pupfish)
* *C. bobmilleri* (San Ignacio pupfish)
* *C. bondi* (Hispaniola pupfish)
* *C. bovinus* (Leon Springs pupfish)
* *C. brontotheroides* (Durophage pupfish)
* †*C. ceciliae* (Villa Lopez pupfish)
* *C. dearborni*
* *C. desquamator* (Scale-eating pupfish)
* *C. diabolis* (Devil's Hole pupfish)
* *C. elegans* (Comanche Springs pupfish)
* *C. eremus* (Sonoyta pupfish)
* *C. esconditus* (Hidden pupfish)
* *C. eximius* (Conchos pupfish)
	+ †Perritos de Sandia
* *C. fontinalis* (Carbonera pupfish)
* *C. higuey* (Black-and-blue Pupfish)
* *C. hubbsi* (Lake Eustis minnow)
* †*C. inmemoriam* (Charco Azul pupfish)
* *C. julimes* (Julimes pupfish)
* *C. labiosus* (Thicklip pupfish)
* *C. laciniatus* (Bahama pupfish)
* *C. latifasciatus* (Parras pupfish)
* *C. longidorsalis* (La Palma pupfish)
* *C. macrolepis* (Largescale pupfish)
* *C. macularius* (Desert pupfish)
* *C. maya* (Maya pupfish)
* *C. meeki* (Mezquital pupfish)
* *C. nazas* (Nazas pupfish)
* *C. nevadensis*
	+ *C. n. amargosae* (Amargosa River pupfish)
	+ †*C. n. calidae* (Tecopa pupfish)
	+ *C. n. mionectes* (Ash Meadows pupfish)
	+ *C. n. nevadensis* (Amargosa pupfish)
	+ *C. n. pectoralis* (Warm Springs pupfish)
	+ *C. n. shoshone* (Shoshone pupfish)
* *C. nichollsi* (Jaragua pupfish)
* *C. pachycephalus* (Bighead pupfish)
* *C. pecosensis* (Pecos pupfish)
* *C. pisteri* (Palomas pupfish)
* *C. radiosus* (Owens pupfish)
* *C. riverendi*
* *C. rubrofluviatilis* (Red River pupfish)
* *C. salinus*
	+ *C. s. milleri* (Cottonball marsh pupfish)
	+ *C. s. salinus* (Death Valley/Salt Creek pupfish)
* *C. salvadori* (Bocochi pupfish)
* *C. simus* (Boxer pupfish)
* *C. suavium*
* *C. tularosa* (White Sands pupfish)
* *C. variegatus*
	+ *C. v. baconi*
	+ *C. v. ovinus*
	+ *C. v. variegatus* (Sheepshead minnow)
* *C. verecundus* (Largefin pupfish)
* *C. veronicae* (Charco Palma pupfish)

## References

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyprinodon
* https://books.google.ca/books?id=gkMxEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA473&lpg=PA473&dq=%22Perritos+de+sandia%22&source=bl&ots=iISrvBYx3a&sig=ACfU3U2uh3sYwq2sxTMBzfCY21MMdquhGg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwitx7Hsw\_b3AhXbCc0KHdr9Au0Q6AF6BAgXEAM#v=onepage&q=%22Perritos%20de%20sandia%22&f=false
* http://www.nativefishlab.net/library/internalpdf/21594.pdf
* https://www.jstor.org/stable/1447332
* https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/6168/12523101