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Amargosa Pupfish
''Cyprinodon nevadensis'' is a species of pupfish in the genus '' Cyprinodon''. The species is also known as the Amargosa pupfish, but that name may also refer to one subspecies, ''Cyprinodon nevadensis amargosae''. All six subspecies are or were endemic to very isolated locations in the Mojave Desert of California and Nevada. Subspecies * ''Cyprinodon nevadensis amargosae'', the Amargosa River pupfish or Amargosa Pupfish, was originally endemic to two sections of the lower Amargosa River. In 1940, a population was introduced at River Springs in Mono County, California. * '' Cyprinodon nevadensis calidae'', the Tecopa pupfish, was declared extinct in 1981, and was the first taxon to be removed from the endangered species list by virtue of extinction. * ''Cyprinodon nevadensis mionectes'', the Ash Meadows pupfish or Ash Meadows Amargosa pupfish, is listed as endangered under the Endangered Species Act. It is limited to Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge in Nevada. * '' C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Cyprinodon Nevadensis (likely Subspp
''Cyprinodon nevadensis'' is a species of pupfish in the genus ''Cyprinodon''. The species is also known as the Amargosa pupfish, but that name may also refer to one subspecies, ''Cyprinodon nevadensis amargosae''. All six subspecies are or were endemism, endemic to very isolated locations in the Mojave Desert of California and Nevada. Subspecies * ''Cyprinodon nevadensis nevadensis'', the Saratoga Springs pupfish, is the nominate subspecies. It was originally limited to Saratoga Springs (Death Valley), Saratoga Springs in Death Valley National Park. A population was introduced at Lake Tuendae in Zzyzx, California, but it may not have survived there. * ''Cyprinodon nevadensis amargosae'', the Amargosa River pupfish or Amargosa Pupfish, was originally endemic to two sections of the lower Amargosa River. In 1940, a population was introduced at River Springs in Mono County, California. * ''Cyprinodon nevadensis mionectes'', the Ash Meadows pupfish or Ash Meadows Amargosa pupfish, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shoshone Pupfish
The Shoshone pupfish (''Cyprinodon nevadensis shoshone'') is a subspecies of ''Cyprinodon nevadensis'' from California in the United States. It is characterized by large scales and a "slab-sided," narrow, slender body, with the arch of the ventral contour much less pronounced than the dorsal. It also has fewer pelvic fin rays and scales than the other subspecies of ''C. nevadensis''. Distribution Its entire range is at the Shoshone Springs. This is a small spring which feeds into the upper Amargosa River in the town of Shoshone, Inyo County, California. The town and the springs are both found within the Amargosa Valley and in the region referred to as the Amargosa Desert. The springs are 21 km north of Tecopa, California. It was considered extinct by the late 1960s, but was rediscovered in 1986 at the spring's outflow. It was rediscovery by F. R. Taylor, R. R. Miller (the original describer), J. W. Pedretti, and J. E. Deacon. This was documented in "Rediscovery of the Shosh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Devils Hole
Devils Hole is a geologic formation located in a detached unit of Death Valley National Park and surrounded by the Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, in Nye County, Nevada, in the Southwestern United States. Devils Hole is habitat for the only naturally occurring population of the endangered Devils Hole pupfish (''Cyprinodon diabolis''). The unit is part of the Ash Meadows complex, an area of desert uplands and spring-fed oases that was designated as a National Wildlife Refuge in 1984. Description Devils Hole is a geothermal pool within a limestone cavern in the Amargosa Desert in the Amargosa Valley of Nevada, east over the Amargosa Range and Funeral Mountains from Death Valley. It is at an elevation of above sea level and the water is a constant temperature of . The surface area of Devils Hole is about 22 m long by 3.5 m wide (72 ft long by 11.5 ft wide). Approximately deep on one end of Devils Hole is a small rock shelf of . The dissolved oxygen of the water ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zzyzx, California
Zzyzx ( ), formerly Soda Springs, is an unincorporated community in San Bernardino County, California, within the boundaries of the Mojave National Preserve, managed by the National Park Service (NPS), an agency of the U.S. Department of Interior, as public land. It is the former site of the Zzyzx Mineral Springs and Health Spa and now the site of the Desert Studies Center. The site is also the location of Lake Tuendae, originally part of the spa, and now a refuge habitat of the endangered Mohave tui chub. Zzyzx Road is a , part paved and part dirt, rural collector road in the Mojave Desert. It runs from Interstate 15 generally south to the Zzyzx settlement. The nearest populated area is the small town of Baker, California, north on Interstate 15. Las Vegas, Nevada, is the nearest major city, about northeast. History Curtis Howe Springer made up the name ''Zzyzx'' and gave it to the area in 1944, claiming it to be the last word in the English language. He established the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lake Tuendae
Lake Tuendae is an artificial pond at the Desert Studies Center in Zzyzx, California. It is inhabited by American Coot, mudhens as well as the endangered Mohave tui chub. See also *List of lakes in California References * * 
Lakes of the Mojave Desert
Reservoirs in San Bernardino County, California
Reservoirs in California
Reservoirs in Southern California
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Death Valley National Park
Death Valley National Park is an American national park that straddles the California–Nevada border, east of the Sierra Nevada. The park boundaries include Death Valley, the northern section of Panamint Valley, the southern section of Eureka Valley and most of Saline Valley. The park occupies an interface zone between the arid Great Basin and Mojave deserts, protecting the northwest corner of the Mojave Desert and its diverse environment of salt-flats, sand dunes, badlands, valleys, canyons and mountains. Death Valley is the largest national park in the contiguous United States, as well as the hottest, driest and lowest of all the national parks in the United States. It contains Badwater Basin, the second-lowest point in the Western Hemisphere and lowest in North America at below sea level. More than 93% of the park is a designated wilderness area. The park is home to many species of plants and animals that have adapted to this harsh desert environment including creosote bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saratoga Springs (Death Valley)
Places of interest in the Death Valley area are mostly located within Death Valley National Park in eastern California. Aguereberry Point Aguereberry Point is a promontory and tourist viewpoint in the Panamint Range, within Death Valley National Park in Inyo County, eastern California. The point's elevation reaches 6,433 ft and is named for Jean Pierre "Pete" Aguereberry, a Basque miner who was born in 1874, emigrated from France in 1890, and lived at and worked the nearby Eureka Mine from 1905 to his death in 1945. From this viewpoint, one can see the surrounding Panamint Range extending to the north and south; Death Valley to the east, with Furnace Creek and the salt flats of Badwater Basin to the southeast; and Mount Charleston in Nevada far to the east. Amargosa Chaos The Amargosa Chaos is a series of geological formations located in the Black Mountains in southern Death Valley. In the 1930s, geologist Levi F. Noble studied the faulting and folding in the area, dubbin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saratoga Springs Pupfish
The Saratoga Springs pupfish (''Cyprinodon nevadensis nevadensis'') is a subspecies of the Amargosa pupfish (''Cyprinodon nevadensis'') of the family Cyprinodontidae. The native population is endemic to Saratoga Springs, a small wetland in Death Valley National Park in the United States. Taxonomy The pupfish is a member of the genus ''Cyprinodon''. Most divergence of ''Cyprinodon'' species likely took place during the early-to-mid Pleistocene, a time when pluvial lakes intermittently filled the now-desert region, though some may have occurred during the last 10,000 years. The evaporation of the lakes resulted in the geographic isolation of small ''Cyprinodon'' populations and the speciation of ''C. nevadensis''. Ichthyologists Rosa Smith Eigenmann and Carl H. Eigenmann first identified ''Cyprinodon nevadensis'' in 1889. Later authors considered it the same species as Cyprinodon macularius. In the 1940s, Robert Rush Miller again described ''C. nevadensis'' as a distinct species, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge
The Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge is a protected wildlife refuge located in the Amargosa Valley of southern Nye County, in southwestern Nevada. It is directly east of Death Valley National Park, and is west-northwest of Las Vegas.Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge The refuge was created on June 18, 1984, to protect an extremely rare desert in the . It is administered by the |
Endangered Species Act
The Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA or "The Act"; 16 U.S.C. § 1531 et seq.) is the primary law in the United States for protecting imperiled species. Designed to protect critically imperiled species from extinction as a "consequence of economic growth and development untempered by adequate concern and conservation", the ESA was signed into law by President Richard Nixon on December 28, 1973. The Supreme Court of the United States described it as "the most comprehensive legislation for the preservation of endangered species enacted by any nation"."Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hill" 437 U.S. 153 (1978) Retrieved 24 November 2015. The purposes of the ESA are two-fold: to prevent extinction and to recover species to the point where the law's protections are not needed. It therefo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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