How to Use pupfish in a Sentence

pupfish

noun

• The Devils Hole pupfish are the rarest fish in the world.
  — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 29 Mar. 2024
• The Quitobaquito pupfish is about the size of my thumb.
  — Jeff Wheelwright, Discover Magazine, 28 Aug. 2014
• Hole pupfish has paddled back from the brink in a hellish desert domain.
  — Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2022
• The pupfish — silvery-blue and the size of a pet goldfish — were unharmed, the park service said.
  — Tegan Hanlon, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Jan. 2018
• For one species of pupfish, farting is a matter of life or death.
  — Brian Resnick, Vox, 3 Apr. 2018
• Caruso: Maybe the pupfish that’s just upside down and bloated.
  — Rachel Becker, The Verge, 31 Mar. 2018
• Nonhikers browse the park visitor center and check out the desert pupfish in the pond at the Palm Canyon trailhead.
  — Christopher Reynoldsstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2023
• The waves stirred the rocks and sediment on the shallow shelf and removed most of the algae growth, limiting the amount of food available to the pupfish in the short term.
  — Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 22 Sep. 2022
• How long have the pupfish in Devil's Hole been isolated?
  — Christie Wilcox, Discover Magazine, 30 Sep. 2014
• Just imagining a bunch of pupfish not farting and popping back up to the surface and being easy prey.
  — Rachel Becker, The Verge, 31 Mar. 2018
• Some, like the Devil’s Hole pupfish, are found only in a single geothermal pool in a limestone cavern.
  — Natasha Daly, National Geographic, 30 July 2019
• These small aquatic ‘islands,’ some not much larger than a bathtub, are populated by four species of a tiny fish, known as desert pupfish.
  — Mark Fischetti, Scientific American, 1 Nov. 2021
• Endangered mud turtles and pupfish drifted through a spring-fed pond; the branches of wolfberry shrubs sagged with orange-red fruit the size of jelly beans.
  — Christopher Flavelle, BostonGlobe.com, 10 June 2023
• The park is also home to several species of endangered pupfish that are endemic to its scant water sources.
  — Shawnté Salabert, Outside Online, 6 Nov. 2019
• An annual count to tally the pupfish inside Devils Hole is set to take place this upcoming weekend, the park service said.
  — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 22 Sep. 2022
• Tiny pupfish that live in the middle of the desert, the only wild camels left on Earth, and lobsters the size of terriers will, no doubt, instill an appreciation for the diversity of life.
  — Megan Gambino, Smithsonian, 7 Dec. 2019
• From horror to hope Scientists have known for a few decades that diving beetles share the waterlogged limestone cavern known as Devil’s Hole with the pupfish.
  — Jason Bittel, National Geographic, 1 Mar. 2019
• Berkeley fish lab recently sequenced the genome of Devils Hole pupfish and found some unique mutations, including one affecting the tail of the sperm.
  — Holly Secon, Discover Magazine, 11 May 2022
• This frees important space between the substrate particles where the Devils Hole pupfish larvae seek refuge.
  — Mika McKinnon, Smithsonian, 26 Jan. 2018
• The Tecopa pupfish is extinct because a local hot springs facility drained its habitat.
  — Jim Robbins, New York Times, 18 Dec. 2017
• The pupfish’s size belies its long and controversial history.
  — Jim Robbins, New York Times, 18 Dec. 2017
• This shallow recess is home to 100 much-studied adult Devils Hole pupfish, or Cyprinodon diabolis.
  — Peter Byrne, Scientific American, 27 Mar. 2012
• There are now thousands of pupfish in a network of artificial ponds, which are planted with three-square bulrush and give a convincingly timeless appearance.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 4 Jan. 2022
• Desert pupfish are critically endangered and live only in Devil’s Hole.
  — Mika McKinnon, Smithsonian, 26 Jan. 2018
• Gumm manages a satellite facility where a replica Devils Hole sustains a refuge population of the pupfish for further research.
  — Holly Secon, Discover Magazine, 11 May 2022
• But those plans were put on hold after environmentalists raised concerns that dry irrigation drains could threaten desert pupfish, an endangered species that calls the region home.
  — Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2024
• The springs are perfect habitat for numerous species of aquatic animals, including two small, endangered desert fishes -- the Pecos gambusia and the Comanche Springs pupfish, according to the release.
  — Midland Reporter-Telegram, Houston Chronicle, 16 June 2020
• Devils Hole is home to the endangered pupfish, a unique breed that can face short-term challenges following the geological phenomenon, technically called a seiche.
  — Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2022
• Hole pupfish are restricted by a strategic management plan developed by wildlife authorities.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2022
• Carson says some pupfish could be considered extremophiles, animals with a tolerance for excessively harsh conditions.
  — Liz Langley, National Geographic, 5 Aug. 2017

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