topminnow
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Everywhere the mosquitofish has been introduced, the topminnow has disappeared.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 21, 2022
The struggle to save the Barrens topminnow is bigger than just one little fish, Kuhajda said.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 21, 2022
One of its champions is biologist Pat Rakes, who researched the Barrens topminnow for his master’s degree thesis at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and now co-directs the nonprofit Conservation Fisheries.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 21, 2022
But they've now reintroduced the Gila topminnow and are watching greenery come back, as well as myriad species of dragonflies.
From Salon ● Apr. 29, 2021
They aren't necessarily the rarest, but they sound the best: Yaqui topminnow.
From Salon ● Jan. 21, 2020
The trickle — little more than a few big mud puddles — was one of the last bodies of water left with a population of Barrens topminnows, and it was drying up.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 21, 2022
But sometime in the 1960s or 1970s, the Western mosquitofish was introduced in a misguided effort to control mosquitos — they eat mosquito larvae, but so do Barrens topminnows.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 21, 2022
Barrens topminnows are named for where they live — Tennessee’s Barrens Plateau, so called for the relative lack of trees.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 21, 2022
“If we hadn’t rescued these 64, this entire genetic population of Barrens topminnows would have disappeared,” Kuhajda said.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 21, 2022
His concern includes the fate of endangered desert pupfish and Gila topminnows.
From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2022
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