Endangered
Hispaniola pupfish
Cyprinodon bondi
The Hispaniola pupfish is a fish endemic to the lakes of Etang Saumâtre and Lake Enriquillo on the island of Hispaniola, in both Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
The ray-finned fish
The adults' total length is up to 82 mm (3.2 in). This is large for the genus Cyprinodon.
Range and habitat
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. The Hispaniola pupfish is a fish endemic to the lakes of Etang Saumâtre and Lake Enriquillo on the island of Hispaniola, in both Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Breeding
Small desert or forest fishes in this order live in water that can vanish. The egg bank, if there is one, is the only reserve.
In crisis
Hispaniola pupfish is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Hispaniola pupfish, Wikidata item Q2388189. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
