The Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge is a protected wildlife refuge located in the Amargosa Valley of southern Nye County, in southwestern Nevada. It is directly east of Death Valley National Park
Ash Meadows habitat, in the Amargosa Desert.
The Point of Rocks Springs in the Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge is home to the Amargosa River Pupfish.
Enceliopsis nudicaulis (Ash Meadows sunray)
The endangered Amargosa pupfish in Kings Pool
Cyprinodon nevadensis is a species of pupfish in the genus Cyprinodon. The species is also known as the Amargosa pupfish, but that name may also refer to one subspecies, Cyprinodon nevadensis amargosa
Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge
…Devils Hole pupfish (Cyprinodon diabolis), Endangered Warm Springs pupfish (Cyprinodon nevadensis pectoralis), Endangered Ash Meadows Amargosa pupfish (Cyprinodon nevadensis mionectes), Endangered…
Likely subspp. amargosae: taken May 2014 in Amargosa River Canyon, downstream from Tecopa Triangle and upstream from waterfalls above confluence with Willow Creek. The second fish from the left in the photograph is male, as indicated by the blue coloration, shown here particularly in his dorsal stripe
National Park Service interpretive signage at Salt Creek, Death Valley National Park.