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Poecilia
| Poecilia | |
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| Male sailfin molly (P. latipinna) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cyprinodontiformes |
| Family: | Poeciliidae |
| Subfamily: | Poeciliinae |
| Tribe: | Poeciliini |
| Genus: | Poecilia Bloch & J. G. Schneider, 1801 |
| Type species | |
| Poecilia vivipara Bloch & J. G. Schneider, 1801
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| Species | |
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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Poecilia is a genus of fishes in the family Poeciliidae of the order Cyprinodontiformes.[2] These livebearers are native to fresh, brackish and salt water in the Americas, and some species in the genus are euryhaline. A few have adapted to living in waters that contain high levels of toxic hydrogen sulfide (H
2S)[3] and a population of P. mexicana lives in caves (other populations of this species are surface-living).[4]
Some common and widespread species are often kept as aquarium fish, while other have very small ranges and are seriously threatened.[3] Species in Poecilia are called mollies (e. g. P. sphenops) or guppies (e. g. P. reticulata) depending on body shape.
Micropoecilia has been proposed to be included as a subgenus of Poecilia.[5]
- ^ Bailly, Nicolas (2014). "Poecilia Bloch & Schneider, 1801". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 19 July 2023.
- ^ "Poecilia". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved June 8, 2006.
- ^ a b Maura Palacios; Lenin Arias-Rodriguez; Martin Plath; Constanze Eifert; Hannes Lerp; Anton Lamboj; Gary Voelker; Michael Tobler (2013). "The Rediscovery of a Long Described Species Reveals Additional Complexity in Speciation Patterns of Poeciliid Fishes in Sulfide Springs". PLOS ONE. 8 (8): e71069. Bibcode:2013PLoSO...871069P. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0071069. PMC 3745397. PMID 23976979.
- ^ Martin Plath; Katja U. Heubel; Francisco J. García de León; Ingo Schlupp (2005). "Cave molly females (Poecilia mexicana, Poeciliidae, Teleostei) like well-fed males". Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 58 (2): 144–151. Bibcode:2005BEcoS..58..144P. doi:10.1007/s00265-005-0918-6.
- ^ Bragança, P. H. N.; W. J. E. M. Costa (December 2010). "Poecilia sarrafae, a new poeciliid from the Paraíba and Mearim river basins, northeastern Brazil (Cyprinodontiformes: Cyprinodontoidei)". Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters. 21 (4): 369–376.
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