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Tecopa pupfish
| Tecopa pupfish | |
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| Live Tecopa pupfish | |
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| Grayscale image of a live Tecopa pupfish | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cyprinodontiformes |
| Family: | Cyprinodontidae |
| Genus: | Cyprinodon |
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| Subspecies: | †C. n. calidae
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| Trinomial name | |
| †Cyprinodon nevadensis calidae R. R. Miller, 1948
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The Tecopa pupfish (Cyprinodon nevadensis calidae) is an extinct subspecies of the Amargosa pupfish (Cyprinodon nevadensis). The small, heat-tolerant pupfish was endemic to the outflows of a pair of hot springs in the Mojave Desert of Inyo County, California. Habitat modifications, the introduction of non-native species and hybridization with the related Amargosa River pupfish led to its extinction around 1979.
- ^ NatureServe. 2013. Cyprinodon nevadensis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013: e.T62210A15362971. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-1.RLTS.T62210A15362971.en. Accessed on 20 August 2023.
- ^ "Cyprinodon nevadensis calidae. NatureServe Explorer 2.0". explorer.natureserve.org. Retrieved August 20, 2023.
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