Amargosa Pupfish
Cyprinodon nevadensis
Fishstrong against mammals, arachnids
Rare
While active with another fish in play, a fish on your bench absorbs up to 9 of the damage this card takes, without being knocked out (18 with two others).
Cyprinodon nevadensis
Photo: © Madeleine Claire (original photo) · CC BY 4.0 (licence text) · cropped
Strong against: it deals 20% more damage to them. Weak against: these types deal 20% more damage to it.
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 amargosae. All six subspecies are or were endemic to very isolated locations in the Mojave Desert of California and Nevada. Specifically, the pupfish have been found in Tecopa Bore, Inyo County, which links to the Amargosa River and Saratoga Springs, in addition to the lakes connected to it.
Amargosa pupfish habitats in freshwater types, including streams, springs, and spring-fed ponds and lakes.
They are small in size, and usually grow up to 25-30 mm in several months, but rarely exceed 50 mm. These pupfish have deeper, broader bodies, with a blunt head and a small, oblique terminal mouth.
Amargosa pupfish are omnivores, and have a diet consisting of algae and cyanobacteria. They also eat small invertebrates.
Male pupfish are bright blue and have a black band on the edge of the tail fin. Female pupfish are olive-brown with metallic blue on their shoulders and upper sides during breeding stages. Male pupfish are protective of their breeding territories and aggressively drive off other male fish. Female disperse their eggs a few at a time and in different locations. Male pupfish guard the territory that the eggs are laid in.
Excerpt from the Wikipedia article Cyprinodon nevadensis, by its authors, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List: that’s what makes this card Rare.
Every Rare card has 130 points, shared between HP, ATK and DEF:
How they’re shared out:
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DEF 57