Cyprinodontidae

Scale-eating pupfish

Cyprinodon desquamator

Consuming scales in salt lakes

• Tropical
• Restricted distribution
• Freshwater fish
• Central America and the Caribbean
• Small
• Tropical fish

Cyprinodon desquamator is a scale-eating species of pupfish in the genus Cyprinodon. It is endemic to hypersaline interior lakes on San Salvador Island, Bahamas. It coexists alongside two other closely related Cyprinodon species C. brontotheroides and C. variegatus.