Species: Cyprinodon variegatus

Animalia - Craniata - Actinopterygii - Cyprinodontiformes - Cyprinodontidae - Cyprinodon - Sheepshead minnows in headwater lakes of the Oklawaha River in central Florida have been recognized taxonomically as the Lake Eustis minnow (C. HUBBSI or C. VARIEGATUS HUBBSI), but the characteristics used to separate this form seem likely to be only developmental responses to the lake habitat (Page and Burr 1991). CYPRINODON VARIEGATUS Hybridizes with C. PECOSENSIS in Texas/New Mexico (see GSTATCOM). Allozyme data are consistent with the hypothesis that C. VARIEGATUS was ancestral to four recognized species (C. BOVINUS, C. PECOSENSIS, C. RUBROFLUVIATILIS, and C. TULAROSA) from inland drainages associated with the western Gulf of Mexico (Echelle and Echelle 1992).