Devils Hole pupfish

English

Alternative forms
  • Devil's Hole pupfish

Noun

Devils Hole pupfish (plural Devils Hole pupfish)

  1. A species of pupfish, Cyprinodon diabolis, found only in a single water-filled canyon in Nevada.
    • 2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherworlds, Penguin, published 2023, page 66:
      In modern North America, too, seemingly uncrossable barriers have been traversed – the Devil's Hole pupfish, found only in a single cave in Nevada, is closely related to species in Death Valley and the Gulf of Mexico.
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