Poecilia

Lucinda, Paulo Henrique Franco & Reis, Roberto E., 2005, Systematics of the subfamily Poeciliinae Bonaparte (Cyprinodontiformes: Poeciliidae), with an emphasis on the tribe Cnesterodontini Hubbs, Neotropical Ichthyology 3 (1), pp. 1-60 : 45

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.1590/S1679-62252005000100001

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16944590

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/88324476-FF89-FFB7-6402-FB432986476F

treatment provided by

Carolina

scientific name

Poecilia
status

 

Poecilia View in CoL View at ENA + Limia + Pamphorichthys + Micropoecilia + “ Poecilia

Clade [99]

Diagnosis. Members of this clade share the following uniquely derived and unreversed features: (1) two (rarely one) welldeveloped gonapophyses [48-2**]; and (2) functional gonapophyses located between vertebrae 13 to 15, but never on vertebra 16 [49-2**].

Additionally, this clade can be diagnosed by the following not uniquely derived and/or reversed features: (1) ligastyle absent [46-0]; (2) Hollister’s foramen on first or second gonapophysis [51-1*]; (3) eight dorsal-fin rays (males and females) [64-2]; (4) nine anal-fin rays in females [65-3*]; and (5) presence of a palp in subdistal segments of R3 [88-1].

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Actinopterygii

Order

Cyprinodontiformes

Family

Poeciliidae

SubFamily

Poeciliinae

SuperTribe

Poeciliini

Tribe

Poeciliini

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