Meanings
nounDevils Hole pupfish (plural Devils Hole pupfish)
alternative Devil's Hole pupfish
- A species of pupfish, Cyprinodon diabolis, found only in a single water-filled canyon in Nevada.
In modern North America, too, seemingly uncrossable barriers have been traversed – the Devil's Hole pupfish, found only in a single cave in Nevada, is closely related to species in Death Valley and the Gulf of Mexico.
2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherworlds, Penguin, published 2023, page 66
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