Saved from extinction: Fish species that feeds on mosquito larvae


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View of male (bottom) and female Tequila fishes swimming in a fish tank during a survey of the species. Photo: AFP

Residents of a small town in western Mexico are celebrating the reintroduction into the wild of the tequila fish – an endemic species saved from the brink of extinction.

The fish, whose scientific name is Zoogoneticus Tequila, was rescued in the 1990s by US and British conservationists who kept it in aquariums and helped it return to its original habitat in the Teuchitlan river.

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