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DATE: TUESDAY, February 26, 1991                   TAG: 9102260436
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-2   EDITION: EVENING 
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DATELINE: NEW YORK                                LENGTH: Short

FISH BELIEVED EXTINCT FOUND IN MEXICO POND

A 2-inch fish that scientists had thought was extinct has been found alive and well in a scum-covered, foul-smelling cattle pond in Mexico.

Ten specimens of the opal allotoca were scooped out of the pond with long-handled nets and brought to the United States, said Michael Smith, an ichthyologist at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.

Smith said nobody had observed an opal allotoca in the wild since he co-discovered it about 20 years ago. - Associated Press

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