Cyprinodon nevadensis calidae Miller, 1948
Tecopa pupfish
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct (Miller et al., 1989; Jelks et al., 2008:401; Burkhead, 2012; NatureServe, 2013)
Last record: 2 February 1970 (Miller et al., 1989:30)
IUCN RedList status: Extinct
Estimated date of extinction: 1971 (Burkhead, 2012).
Distribution & Habitat
near Tecopa, Inyo County, California, USA
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
Source: Ono et al. (1983)
References
Original scientific description:
Miller, Robert Rush. (1948). The cyprinodont fishes of the Death Valley system of eastern California and southwestern Nevada. Misc. Publ. Mus. Zool. Univ. Mich. 68: 1-155.
Other references:
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Burkhead, Noel M. (2012). Extinction Rates in North American Freshwater Fishes, 1900–2010. BioScience 62(9): 798-808.
Day, David. (1981). The Doomsday Book of Animals: A Natural History of Vanished Species. New York, N.Y.: The Viking Press.
Esmond, E. (1980). Cyprinodon nevadensis (Eigenmann and Eigenmann), Amargosa pupfish, p. 498. In: Lee, David Stephen, Gilbert, Carter R., Hocutt, Charles H., Jenkins, Robert E., McAllister, Don E. and Stauffer, Jay R., Jr. Atlas of North American freshwater fishes. Publication of the North Carolina Biological Survey. No. 1980-12: i-x + 1-867. https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.141711
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Hudon, Daniel (writer) and Behin, Elahe (illustrator). (2014, April 6th). Brief Eulogies for Lost Species. Paragraphiti. Retrieved from http://www.paragraphiti.com/brief-eulogies-for-lost-species/ [accessed 21 April, 2018]
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Malý, Radek (author), Grbavčič, Jiří (illustrator) and Dvorský, Pavel (illustrator). (2022). Atlas of Extinct Animals. Albatros nakladatelstvi as [Albatros Media]. 88/96 pp.
Miller, Robert Rush, Williams, James D. and Williams, Jack E. (1989). Extinctions of North American fishes during the past century. Fisheries 14(6): 22-38.
NatureServe. (2013). Cyprinodon nevadensis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013: e.T62210A15362971. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-1.RLTS.T62210A15362971.en. Accessed on 06 April 2025.
Ono, R. Dana, Williams, James D. and Wagner, Anne [with painting by Aleta Pahel]. (1983). Vanishing Fishes of North America. Washington DC: Stone Wall Press, Inc. 257 pp.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. (1982). Deregulation of the Tecopa Pupfish. Federal Register 47(10): 2317-2319.