pupfishes การใช้

• Mating behavior differs from stream-dwelling pupfishes but is similar to other spring-dwellers.
• The popularity of the springs in the 1950s and 1960s led to the extensive alteration of the pupfishes'habitat.
• Some of the variability in behavior and morphology among pupfishes may be a response to harsh environmental conditions mediated by endocrine systems.
• Shoshone pupfish, like other pupfishes, feed primarily on blue-green cyanobacteria but also consume small invertebrates like chironomid larvae, ostracods, and copepods.
• In 1942, a colleague named a new genus of pupfishes as " Kosswigichthys " in his honor, which was renamed by Kosswig and that collegaue ( Dr . Soezer ) in 1945 as " Anatolichthys " in honor of their place of origin in Anatolia.
• The largest number of species are found in China ( more than 50 ) and Brazil ( 25 ), Stygobite fish are known from a wide range of families, including Amblyopsidae ( U . S . cavefishes ), Astroblepidae ( naked sucker-mouth catfishes ), Balitoridae ( hillstream loaches ), Bythitidae ( brotulas ), Characidae ( characids ), Clariidae ( airbreathing catfishes ), Cyprinidae ( carps and allies ), Cyprinodontidae ( pupfishes ), Eleotridae ( sleeper gobies ), Gobiidae ( gobies ), Heptapteridae ( heptapterid catfishes ), Ictaluridae ( ictalurid catfishes ), Loricariidae ( loricariid catfishes ), Nemacheilidae ( stone loaches ), Sternopygidae ( glass knifefishes ), Synbranchidae ( swamp eels ) and Trichomycteridae ( pencil catfishes ).