Klaus
--- ichthos at comcast.net wrote:
> The original question was which CYPRINID has the
> smallest natural range in North America. (The answer
> is, nobody knows for sure.) That would eliminate
> fundulids and cyprinodontids from the answer,
> although it is true that Cyprinodon diabolis has the
> smallest known natural range of any fish (in fact,
> any vertebrate) in North America (in fact, the
> world).
>
> Chris Scharpf
> Baltimore
>
>
>
> > I presume, since you didn't specify, that this is
> open
> > tofish of all native ranges during historical
> times.
> > My vote would be for the devil's hole pupfish with
> > Fundulus albolineatus being a close second.
> >
> > Klaus
> >
> >
> > --- Fritz Rohde <Fritz.Rohde at ncmail.net> wrote:
> >
> > > My vote is for the Cape Fear shiner. I
> challenge
> > > Chris to be the final
> > > authority.
> > >
> > > Fritz Rohde
> > > lower Cape Fear River
> > > Wilmington, NC
> > >
> >
>
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