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Mezquital pupfish
The
Mezquital
pupfish
is a
species
of pupfish in the
family
Cyprinodontidae
. It is
endemic
to
Durango
in
Mexico
. This species was
described
by
Robert Rush Miller
in
1976
from a
pond
which was fed by
hot springs
within the
basin
of the
Río del Tunal
,
approximately
east
of
Durango City
at an
altitude
of about. The
specific name
honors
the American
ichthyologist
Seth Eugene Meek
, a
pioneer
of the study of the
freshwater fish
of Mexico.
