Location
- Shoshone Springs
- upper Amargosa River
- Amargosa Desert
- Amargosa Valley
- 21 km north of Tecopa, California
- Inyo County, California
- Considered extinct by late 1960s; rediscovered 1986 at spring's outflow.
- Shoshone Spring outflow, Shoshone, Inyo County, California.
- Rediscovery by F. R. Taylor, R. R. Miller (the original describer), J. W. Pedretti, and J. E. Deacon documented in "Rediscovery of the Shoshone Pupfish Cyprinodon nevadensis shoshone (Cyprinodontidae), at Shoshone Springs, Inyo County, California". published in Bull. Southern California Acad. Sci. 87(2), 1988, pp 67–73. The rediscovery date is 31 July 1986 in which caudal ray count differed from the original description. Note: although rediscovered, this pupfish does not enjoy ENDANGERED SPECIES STATUS and its' present survival is unverified by redocucumentation.
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