Animalia > Chordata > Cyprinodontiformes > Cyprinodontidae > Cyprinodon > Cyprinodon rubrofluviatilis

Cyprinodon rubrofluviatilis (Red River pupfish)

Synonyms: Cyprinodon bovinus rubrofluviatilis
Language: Finnish; German; Mandarin Chinese

Wikipedia Abstract

Cyprinodon rubrofluviatilis, known as the Red River pupfish, is a species of killifish from the United States. It is found only in the Red River of the South and Brazos River drainages of Texas and Oklahoma, It grows to a total length of 58 mm (2.3 in) and feeds on midge larvae and other insects. It was first described by Henry Weed Fowler in 1916, as a subspecies of the species Cyprinodon bovinus; the specific epithet rubrofluviatilis refers to the Red River.
View Wikipedia Record: Cyprinodon rubrofluviatilis

Attributes

Adult Length [1]  1.968 inches (5 cm)

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Frimpong, E.A., and P. L. Angermeier. 2009. FishTraits: a database of ecological and life-history traits of freshwater fishes of the United States. Fisheries 34:487-495.
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0