Hispaniola pupfish


The Hispaniola pupfish is a fish found in Etang Saumâtre on the island of Hispaniola.

Taxonomic history

wrote its species description in 1935. Its holotype was deposited at the National Museum of Natural History. The type locality of this fish is Étang Saumâtre, Haiti. Myers named this species after R. M. Bond, who collected the specimens Myers used for his description.

Description

The adults' total length is up to ; this is large for the genus Cyprinodon. Its standard length is up to.

Distribution

The fish's holotype and paratypes were all collected in Étang Saumâtre, Haiti. Michael Leonard Smith writes this species is endemic to this lake, on the border of Haiti and the Dominican Republic; some specimens collected from Lago Enriquillo had been identified as being C. bondi, but Smith argues that this identification was mistaken.