Warner Brett Daniels
Author
Publisher
Green Mountain College
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Annual fish species found in the family Cyprinodontidae (killifishes, pupfishes, and tooth carps) inhabit isolated bodies of freshwater throughout North and South America and Africa that can experience seasonal drought and desiccation. Many of these species survive extinction by laying drought-resistant eggs which undergo several phases of reversible developmental arrests or diapause during their ontogeny. Desert pupfish (Cyprinodon macularius) are...