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.

Class: Teleosts
Order: Killifishes and Livebearers
Family: Cyprinodontidae
Genus: Cyprinodon
Maximum length: 3.1 cm
Water: Freshwater
Distribution: Central America: restricted to six hypersaline lakes on San Salvador Island, Bahamas: Crescent Pond, Osprey Lake, Oyster Lake, Little Lake, Mermaid Pond and Great Lake.
Conservation status: LCLeast Concern

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