Cyprinodon brontotheroides
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cyprinodontiformes |
| Family: | Cyprinodontidae |
| Genus: | Cyprinodon |
| Species: | C. brontotheroides
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| Binomial name | |
| Cyprinodon brontotheroides C. H. Martin & Wainwright, 2013
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Cyprinodon brontotheroides is a species of pupfish in the genus Cyprinodon.
Distribution and habitat[edit]
It is endemic to hypersaline interior lakes on San Salvador Island, Bahamas.
Ecology and taxonomy[edit]
It coexists alongside two other closely related Cyprinodon species C. desquamator and C. variegatus. Together, these three species represent a recent adaptive radiation, each having moved into a difference niche within their specialized environment. Each of these species are defined by distinct trophic adaptations that have affected various aspects of functional morphology.[2]
Description[edit]
Cyprinodon brontotheroides is durophagous. It has a large in-lever to out-lever ratio for closing its lower jaw with force and a protruding, reinforced nasal region probably used for crushing its specialized diet of ostracods and gastropods.[3] They breed in the spring and the breeding territories are guarded by the males.[4]
References[edit]
- ^ Lyons, T.J. (2021). "Cyprinodon brontotheroides". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2021: e.T82958597A82962206. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-1.RLTS.T82958597A82962206.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
- ^ Martin, Christoper (11 January 2013). "Multiple Fitness Peaks on the Adaptive Landscape Drive Adaptive Radiation in the Wild". Science. 339 (6116): 208–211. Bibcode:2013Sci...339..208M. doi:10.1126/science.1227710. PMID 23307743. S2CID 25063734.
- ^ Martin, Christopher (2011). "Trophic novelty is linked to exceptional rates of morphological diversification in two adaptive radiations of Cyprinodon pupfish". Evolution. 65 (8): 2197–2212. doi:10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01294.x. PMID 21790569.
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2019). "Cyprinodon brontotheroides" in FishBase. August 2019 version.