Xiphophorus hellerii Heckel, 1848

Sayyadzadeh, Golnaz & Esmaeili, Hamid Reza, 2024, Freshwater lamprey and fishes of Iran: Reappraisal and updated checklist with a note on Eagderi et al. (2022), Zootaxa 5402 (1), pp. 1-99 : 84-85

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5402.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:F8A2EFAB-C50C-400B-AE24-0684EF47F39D

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14960220

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C71929-D300-FF8E-97B0-123250D6E0D2

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Plazi

scientific name

Xiphophorus hellerii Heckel, 1848
status

 

273. Xiphophorus hellerii Heckel, 1848 View in CoL

Common name. Green swardtail

Taxonomy. Original description: Xiphophorus hellerii Heckel, 1848: 291 , pl. 8 (figs. 1-3) [Orizaba, Mexico [Atlantic]; syntypes: NMW 60543 View Materials (8)] .

Revisions. None.

Illustrations. Heckel (1848: 291, pl. 8 (figs. 1-3).

Distribution in Iran. —Distribution in River Basin: Namak Lake, Persis.—Distribution in Ecoregions: 442- Upper Tigris & Euphrates, 447-Namak.

Status in Iran. [Exotic].—Mahi-e Dom shamshiri.—Listed in previous checklists from Iran by Esmaeili et al. (2017 a, 2018); Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. (2020) and Eagderi et al. (2022).―Iran material: ZM-CBSU.

Conservation. Not relevant (introduced species).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Cyprinodontiformes

Order

Cyprinodontiformes

Family

Poeciliidae

SubFamily

Poeciliinae

Genus

Xiphophorus

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