Species: Cyprinodon laciniatus, Bahama Pupfish

Cyprinodon laciniatus Hubbs & Miller, 1942

Bahama Pupfish

Body moderately deep and chubby; head flattened; snout short and blunt; front nostril not tubular; covering of eye not continuous with skin of head; cheek deep (distance from edge of bone under eye to corner of preoperculum >2X length of opercle); mouth wide, oblique, at front, protrusible; teeth 3-pointed; dorsal fin short-based, 10-18 rays, at mid-body, its origin before anal fin origin; anal fin with 8-13 branched rays; pectoral fin short, 13-20 rays, low on side; pelvics small, 6-7 rays, on belly well behind pectoral base; tail fin bluntly rounded; body with large scales, head scaly, free edges of scales scalloped; an enlarged, elongate scale just behind upper corner of operculum; lateral line reduced to a series of pits along side of body.

Male: greenish-grey above, with blue reflections on top; grey below suffused with orange to rose; a series of narrow silvery bars on side of body; dorsal and anal fins pale yellow, tail fin pale white, with a black margin. Female: grey-green above, pale grey suffused with yellow to rose below; dark green to black bars along flanks, some of them Y shaped; sometimes a dark spot at rear edge of dorsal fin.

Reaches 6.6 cm.

Brackish ponds.

Depth range: 0-2 m.

The Bahamas.