A small fish that resembles the carp but possesses small teeth, occurring mainly in fresh water in America. Many toothcarp are popular in aquaria.
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Order Cyprinodontiformes: several families, in particular Cyprinodontidae (or Fundulidae) (the egg-laying killifishes and topminnows), and Poeciliidae (the livebearers)
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The main tasks carried out in the Pletera were to improve the conservation state of vegetal sand dune and marshlands communities and to ensure the conservation of the Spanish toothcarp, a fish in danger of extinction and only found in the Iberian peninsula.
The only fish now found here is a species of toothcarp that is confined to the mouths of streams that flow into the lake.
Among the fish species to be seen are very characteristic of the area like the Samaruc (Valencia toothcarp) and the Fartet.
In the water is one of the few populations in Andalucia of the endangered Iberian toothcarp, which is native to the Iberian Peninsula.
Fundulus cingulatus is an egg-laying toothcarp of the family Cyprinodontidae.
Or, if tortoises, skinks and toads are perhaps a bit too slimy for you, its waters are home to the minute Aphanius iberus, the killifish or Spanish toothcarp.
Genetic monitoring of brackish-water populations: the Mediterranean toothcarp Aphanius fasciatus as a model
Coercive mating and gonopodium length in two populations of a livebearering toothcarp: do cave molly males have shorter gonopodia?