Texas Fauna Project

Leon Springs Pupfish

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Tony Echelle, Ph.D., has worked as a zoology professor at Oklahoma State University, teaching and researching for close to four decades. Desert spring fish make up one of his major interests. Here he discusses the Leon Springs Pupfish, an endangered fish native to the Diamond Y Springs, near Fort Stockton, and explains why it is so critical to protect the Pupfish and its ecosystem.