Micropoecilia

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Micropoecilia
Poecilia (Micropoecilia) bifurca, above two males, below one female, illustration from The freshwater fishes of British Guiana by Carl H. Eigenmann

Poecilia (Micropoecilia) bifurca , above two males, below one female, illustration from The freshwater fishes of British Guiana by Carl H. Eigenmann

Systematics
Order : Toothpies (Cyprinodontiformes)
Subordination : Cyprinodontoidei
Family : Viviparous toothcarps (Poeciliidae)
Subfamily : Live-bearing toothcarps (Poeciliinae)
Genre : Poecilia
Subgenus : Micropoecilia
Scientific name
Micropoecilia
Hubbs , 1926

Micropoecilia is a subgenus of the genus Poecilia within the viviparous toothcarps (Poeciliinae). Micropoecilia is also listed as a genus bysome authors, the exact status is disputed.

features

They are small fish similar to the well-known guppy . The animals reach a length between 1.6 and 5 cm. Males have an anal fin that has been transformed into a gonopodium and are more conspicuously colored than their female counterparts.

Distribution and way of life

The species of the subgenus are native to Guyana , Brazil and Trinidad . Little is known about the way fish live.

Systematics

The subgenus forms the sister group of the guppies ( Acanthophacelus ) within the genus Poecilia . After the last major revision of the viviparous toothcarps by P. Lucinda (2005), Micropoecilia was still listed as a genus, but it was already recognized that the genus Poecilia cannot be a monophylum . Bragança , Costa and Gama described (2010) to be Micropoecilia to computing sarrafae Poecilia , which Micropoecilia the synonym for Poecilia was. 2012 followed by the first description of Poecilia Waiapi by the same authors.

species

literature

  • Lothar Wischnath: Atlas of Livebearers of the World. TFH Publications, Neptune (New Jersey) 1993, ISBN 0-86622-368-1
  • Manfred K. Meyer, Lothar Wischnath, Wolfgang Foerster: Livebearers ornamental fish: Species of the world. Mergus Verlag für Natur- und Heimtierkunde Baensch, Melle 1985, ISBN 3-88244-006-6

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Paulo Henrique Franco Lucinda, Roberto E. Reis: Systematics of the subfamily Poeciliinae Bonaparte (Cyprinodontiformes: Poeciliidae), with an emphasis on the tribe Cnesterodontini Hubbs. Neotrope. ichthyol. vol. 3 no.1 Porto Alegre Jan./Mar. 2005 doi : 10.1590 / S1679-62252005000100001
  2. ↑ Pedro HN Bragança, Wilson JEM Costa: Poecilia sarrafae , a new poeciliid from the Parnaíba and Mearim river basins, northeastern Brazil (Cyprinodontiformes: Cyprinodontoidei) . In: Ichthyol. Explor. Freshwaters 21, No. 4, December 2010, pp. 369-376.
  3. ↑ Pedro HN Bragança, Wilson JEM Costa, Cecile S. Gama: Poecilia waiapi , a new poeciliid from the Jari river drainage, northern Brazil (Cyprinodontiformes: Cyprinodontoidei) . In: Ichthyol. Explor. Freshwaters 22, No. 4, December 2011, pp. 337-343.

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