What Exactly is: Devils Hole Pupfish | Saved by Earthquakes

Devils Hole pupfish had always been on the brink of extinction. Its population is unstable, at some point even plummeted into only 35 individuals. Conservation efforts had been done to keep their existence. It is one of the first animal to be protected by the US government. Even so, there are some controversies surrounding their conservation.


Timestamps
0:00 Opening thought
0:39 General information
1:19 Characteristics
2:34 Devils Hole
3:32 Living condition
6:28 Saved by earthquakes
7:43 Threats, conservation, and controversies


References
Fishbase. Cyprinodon diabolis. https://fishbase.mnhn.fr/summary/Cypr...

Sigler, John W. (2016). Fishes of the Great Basin: A Natural History. University of Nevada Press. pp. 306–307. https://books.google.co.id/books?id=R...

Martin, C. H., Crawford, J. E., Turner, B. J., & Simons, L. H. (2016). Diabolical survival in Death Valley: recent pupfish colonization, gene flow and genetic assimilation in the smallest species range on earth. Proceedings. Biological sciences, 283(1823), 20152334. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2015.2334

Heuton, M., Ayala, L., Burg, C. et al. (2015). Paradoxical anaerobism in desert pupfish. J Exp Biol, 218 (23): 3739–3745. https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.130633

Beissinger S. R. (2014). Digging the pupfish out of its hole: risk analyses to guide harvest of Devils Hole pupfish for captive breeding. PeerJ, 2, e549. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.549

Reed, J.M. & Stockwell, C.A. (2014). Evaluating an icon of population persistence: the Devil’s Hole pupfish. Proc R. Soc. B., 281. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2014.1648

Martin, C.H., & Höhna, S. (2017). New evidence for the recent divergence of Devil’s Hole pupfish and the plausibility of elevated mutation rates in endangered taxa. Molecular Ecology, 27(4): 831-838. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.14404

Earthquake and population: https://www.npr.org/2023/07/07/118211...

Alaskan Earthquake: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-...

Ridgecrest Earthquake: https://weather.com/news/news/2019-07...

Mexico Earthquake: https://www.latimes.com/california/st...

Recent population: https://www.newsweek.com/devils-hole-...

Beetle threat: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/an...

Controversies: https://www.hcn.org/issues/51-6/endan...


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