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San Salvador pupfish lakes

23° 59.4′ N · 74° 29.4′ W · approximate

The hypersaline inland lakes hold an evolutionary showpiece: pupfish species found nowhere else, including a scale-eater and a snail-crusher.

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Wikipedia: the scale-eating pupfish (Cyprinodon desquamator) and molluscivore pupfish (C. brontotheroides) are endemic to San Salvador's hypersaline interior lakes; Crescent Pond is the type locality of the molluscivore. Point is the central lake district (approx); exact pond locations were not published in the sources opened. Look, don't net - these are protected endemics.

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