Species details

Accepted scientific name:

Poecilia vivipara Bloch & Schneider, 1801 (accepted name)

Synonyms:

Molinesia fasciata Müller & Troschel, 1844 (synonym)

Neopoecilia holacanthus Hubbs, 1924 (synonym)

Poecilia holacanthus (Hubbs, 1924) (synonym)

Poecilia schneideri Valenciennes, 1821 (synonym)

Poecilia surinamensis Valenciennes, 1821 (synonym)

Poecilia unimaculata Valenciennes, 1821 (synonym)

Common names:

胎花鮰 Chinese, Mandarin Chinese

Augenfleckkärpfling German

Barrigudinho Portuguese

Golomine Creole, French

Grosboudin Creole, French

Guaru Portuguese

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

Hochrücken-Kärpfling German

Loanguma Djuka

Molly English, French, Swedish

Øjeplettandkarpe Danish

Øjeplet-tandkarpe Danish

Ordenstandkarp Swedish

Piekniczka Polish

Poecilie French

Rengasmolli Finnish

Sapelko Galibi

Sardinita Spanish

Spotsided livebearer English

Classification:

Animalia

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Phylum Chordata

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Class Actinopterygii

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Order Cyprinodontiformes

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Family Poeciliidae

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Genus Poecilia

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Distribution:

America, North - Inland waters; America, South - Inland waters; Argentina; Brazil; French Guiana; Guyana; Martinique; Neotropical; Patos Lagoon; Puerto Rico; South America: Venezuela all along the coast to Rio de la Plata in Argentina. Introduced in Puerto Rico (Ref. 26938) and Martinique (Ref. 48621).; Suriname; Trinidad and Tobago; Uruguay; Venezuela

Additional data:

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Source database:

FishBase, Dec 2008

Latest taxonomic scrutiny:

Data last modified by FishBase 22-Jun-1998

Online resource:

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


CoL taxon LSID:

urn:lsid:catalogueoflife.org:taxon:408bdd4d-52c2-102c-b3cd-957176fb88b9:ac2009


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