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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

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

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