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Cyprinodon desquamator is a scale-eating
species of
pupfish in the
genus Cyprinodon. It is
endemic to
hypersaline interior lakes on San
Salvador Island...
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family was
found to be
enriched in scale-eating
pupfish (Cyprinodon
desquamator) guts, even
after being fed a
common laboratory diet,
suggesting it may...
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Quintana Roo, Mexico, and
three (the
endemic C.
brontotheroides and C.
desquamator, and the
widespread C. variegatus) live in the
hypersaline lakes on San...
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hypersaline lakes on this island. The scale-eating
pupfish (Cyprinodon
desquamator), the
molluscivore pupfish (Cyprinodon brontotheroides), and the widemouth...
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Roeboides and
Roeboexodon species (order Characiformes),
Cyprinodon desquamator (family Cyprinodontidae),
along with both
Perissodus species, all four...
- It
coexists alongside two
other closely related Cyprinodon species C.
desquamator and C. variegatus. Together,
these three species represent a
recent adaptive...
- (3.9 in) long, but also the only that
catches and eats
whole fish (C.
desquamator of San
Salvador Island is a scale-eater). In
smaller quantities it eats...
