Species details

Accepted scientific name:

Poecilia reticulata Peters, 1859 (accepted name)

Synonyms:

Acanthophacelus guppii (Günther, 1866) (synonym)

Acanthophacelus reticulatus (Peters, 1859) (synonym)

Girardinus guppii Günther, 1866 (synonym)

Girardinus reticulatus (Peters, 1859) (synonym)

Haridichthys reticulatus (Peters, 1859) (synonym)

Heterandria guppyi (Günther, 1866) (synonym)

Lebistes poecilioides De Filippi, 1861 (synonym)

Lebistes poeciloides De Filippi, 1861 (synonym)

Lebistes reticulatus (Peters, 1859) (synonym)

Poecilia reticulate Peters, 1859 (synonym)

Poecilia reticulatus Peters, 1859 (synonym)

Poecilioides reticulatus (Peters, 1859) (synonym)

Common names:

millions fish English

rainbowfish English

гуппи Russian

グッピー Japanese

孔雀花鮰(虹鮰,孔雀魚)(引進) Mandarin Chinese

孔雀花鮰(虹鮰,孔雀鱼)(引进) Mandarin Chinese

虹鮰 Chinese, Mandarin Chinese

Živorodka duhová Czech

Živorodka dúhová (gupka) Slovak

Cá bay màu Vietnamese

Bandera Papiamento, Spanish

Barbados millions English

Barrigudinho Portuguese

Barrigudinho-mexicano Portuguese

Bunting Toba, Batak

Burting Toba, Batak

Cytrynówka Polish

Gup Dutch

Gupi Portuguese, Spanish

Gupik pawie Polish

Guppie Afrikaans

Guppies English

Guppii Japanese

Guppy Danish, English, French, German, Malay, Sinhalese, Swedish

Hung dzoek ue Cantonese

Ikan seribu Malay

Lareza tripikaloshe Albanian

Lebistes Portuguese

Mexicano Portuguese

Miljoenvis Afrikaans

Miljoonakala Finnish

Million fish English

Millionenfisch German

Millions English

Poisson million French

Queue de voile French

Rainbow fish English

Renting Bahasa Indonesia

Sarapintado Portuguese

Sardinita Spanish

Sibolon perut Toba, Batak

Siburting Toba, Batak

Wilder Riesenguppy German

Classification:

Animalia

LSID

Phylum Chordata

LSID

Class Actinopterygii

LSID

Order Cyprinodontiformes

LSID

Family Poeciliidae

LSID

Genus Poecilia

LSID

Distribution:

Africa-Inland Waters; Zambia; Volga; Zambezi; Viet Nam; Venezuela; USA (contiguous states); US Virgin Islands; United Kingdom; United Arab Emirates; Uganda; Trinidad and Tobago; Thailand; Tana River; Taiwan; Tahiti; Sri Lanka; Taal Lake; Slovakia; South Africa; South America: Venezuela, Barbados, Trinidad, northern Brazil and the Guyanas. Widely introduced and established elsewhere, mainly for mosquito control, but had rare to non-existing effects on mosquitoes, and negative to perhaps neutral effects on nativ; Singapore; Seychelles; Saudi Arabia; Samoa; Russian Federation; Réunion; Puerto Rico; Philippines; Peru; Papua New Guinea; Palearctic; Palau; Pacific Is. (Trust Tr.); Oriental; Oceania - Inland waters; Nigeria; New Zealand; New Caledonia; Netherlands; Netherlands Antilles; Neotropical; Namibia; Mexico; Mayotte; Mauritius; Martinique; Madagascar; Malaysia; Lake Victoria; Lake Toba; Kenya; Japan; Jamaica; Hungary; India; Indonesia; Hong Kong; Hawaii (USA); Guyana; Guam; French Polynesia; Ethiopian; Europe - Inland waters; Fiji Islands; East Timor; Czech Republic; Cuba; Costa Rica; Cook Islands; Comoros; Colombia; Canada; Brazil; Barbados; Balsas river; Australian; Australia; Athi-Galana-Sabaki River Drainage System; Asia - Inland waters; Antigua and Barbuda; America, South - Inland waters; America, North - Inland waters; Albania

Additional data:

Source database:

FishBase, Dec 2008

Latest taxonomic scrutiny:

Data last modified by FishBase 15-May-2002

Online resource:

http://www.fishbase.org/...


CoL taxon LSID:

urn:lsid:catalogueoflife.org:taxon:40609c7e-52c2-102c-b3cd-957176fb88b9:ac2009


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