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The Devils Hole Pupfish


Chris Plumb

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Interesting read :)

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Species caught in 2017 Common Ash, Hawthorn, Hazel, Scots Pine, White Willow.

Species caught in 2016: Alder, Blackthorn, Common Ash, Crab Apple, Left Earlobe, Pedunculate Oak, Rock Whitebeam, Scots Pine, Smooth-leaved Elm, Swan, Wayfaring tree.

Species caught in 2015: Ash, Bird Cherry, Black-Headed Gull, Common Hazel, Common Whitebeam, Elder, Field Maple, Gorse, Puma, Sessile Oak, White Willow.

Species caught in 2014: Big Angry Man's Ear, Blackthorn, Common Ash, Common Whitebeam, Downy Birch, European Beech, European Holly, Hawthorn, Hazel, Scots Pine, Wych Elm.
Species caught in 2013: Beech, Elder, Hawthorn, Oak, Right Earlobe, Scots Pine.

Species caught in 2012: Ash, Aspen, Beech, Big Nasty Stinging Nettle, Birch, Copper Beech, Grey Willow, Holly, Hazel, Oak, Wasp Nest (that was a really bad day), White Poplar.
Species caught in 2011: Blackthorn, Crab Apple, Elder, Fir, Hawthorn, Horse Chestnut, Oak, Passing Dog, Rowan, Sycamore, Willow.
Species caught in 2010: Ash, Beech, Birch, Elder, Elm, Gorse, Mullberry, Oak, Poplar, Rowan, Sloe, Willow, Yew.

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Isnt life amazing.

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You can also find frogs, toads and salamanders in Death Valley.

The problem isn't what people don't know, it's what they know that just ain't so.
Vaut mieux ne rien dire et passer pour un con que de parler et prouver que t'en est un!
Mi, ch’fais toudis à m’mote

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Yes,

 

Just after they solved Death Valley's "sailing stones" - Chris comes up with a fish story. Nothing better than a fish story I say.

 

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The problem isn't what people don't know, it's what they know that just ain't so.
Vaut mieux ne rien dire et passer pour un con que de parler et prouver que t'en est un!
Mi, ch’fais toudis à m’mote

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Very interesting to a species hunter !

 

America is stiff with isolated populations of "minnows" (cyprinids), suckers, pupfishes, gambusias, darters, etc - and that is just the freshwater. Add to that shorelines of the Pacific, the Atlantic, and the Caribbean and you can see that to be a successful species hunter it helps if you live in the USA ! That gives a good start before any need for intercontinental travel.

 

That is why Bill Wozniak passed 1000 species some time ago, whilst I am struggling to reach 500. I do have one of these isolated populations on my list - the largespring gambusia Gambusia geiseri, which I picked up in Texas, wrote up on here, but which eludes a search so far.

 

Looked up the DH pupfish in my Peterson fieldguide. "The smallest known range of any vertebrate animal" Wow !

 

PS Just looked up the gambusia in my records. Caught on19th October 2010, and I wrote it up soon afterwards - probably on the freshwater forum. Has anyone a better search engine than mine ........

 

PPS Found it !....at the second attempt.

http://www.anglersnet.co.uk/forums/index.php?/topic/2497649-a-largespring-gambusia/?hl=%2Blargespring+%2Bgambusia

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RNLI Governor

 

World species 471 : UK species 105 : English species 95 .

Certhia's world species - 215

Eclectic "husband and wife combined" world species 501

 

"Nothing matters very much, few things matter at all" - Plato

...only things like fresh bait and cold beer...

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Very interesting to a species hunter !

 

America is stiff with isolated populations of "minnows" (cyprinids), suckers, pupfishes, gambusias, darters, etc - and that is just the freshwater. Add to that shorelines of the Pacific, the Atlantic, and the Caribbean and you can see that to be a successful species hunter it helps if you live in the USA ! That gives a good start before any need for intercontinental travel.

 

That is why Bill Wozniak passed 1000 species some time ago, whilst I am struggling to reach 500. I do have one of these isolated populations on my list - the largespring gambusia Gambusia geiseri, which I picked up in Texas, wrote up on here, but which eludes a search so far.

 

Looked up the DH pupfish in my Peterson fieldguide. "The smallest known range of any vertebrate animal" Wow !

 

PS Just looked up the gambusia in my records. Caught on19th October 2010, and I wrote it up soon afterwards - probably on the freshwater forum. Has anyone a better search engine than mine ........

 

PPS Found it !....at the second attempt.

http://www.anglersnet.co.uk/forums/index.php?/topic/2497649-a-largespring-gambusia/?hl=%2Blargespring+%2Bgambusia

Amazon basin has circa known 5,600 fish species.

The problem isn't what people don't know, it's what they know that just ain't so.
Vaut mieux ne rien dire et passer pour un con que de parler et prouver que t'en est un!
Mi, ch’fais toudis à m’mote

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