topminnow
Americannoun
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topminnow,
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topminnows
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noun
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Origin of topminnow
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Recognizing the threats of habitat loss from farming and development as well as predation by mosquitofish, the Fish and Wildlife Service first proposed listing the Barrens topminnow as endangered in 1977.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 21, 2022
“They eat all the topminnows’ eggs, all their larvae, and they harass the Barrens topminnow — even though the Barrens topminnow is bigger — and nip their fins off,” Rakes said.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 21, 2022
The topminnow was finally given federal protection in 2019, but its future is still in doubt partially because the U.S.
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
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
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
“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
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
His concern includes the fate of endangered desert pupfish and Gila topminnows.
From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2022
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