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Poeciliidae
Bonaparte, 1831
- poeciliids
(fish)
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Cyprinodontoidei (Suborder)
..Anablepidae (Family) - four-eyed fishes and onesided livebearers
..Aphaniidae (Family) - Oriental killifishes
..Cyprinodontidae (Family) - killifishes
..Fluviphylacidae (Family) - American lampeyes
..Fundulidae (Family) - topminnows and killifishes
..Goodeidae (Family) - splitfins
..Pantanodontidae (Family) - spine killifishes
..Procatopodidae (Family) - African lampeyes
..Profundulidae (Family) - Middle American killifishes
..Valenciidae (Family) - European killifishes
..Poeciliidae (Family) - poeciliids
....Poeciliinae (Subfamily) - livebearers
....Tomeurinae (Subfamily) - facultative viviparous poeciliids
....Xenodexiinae (Subfamily) - Guatemalan poeciliids
Authorship
Original name
:
Bonaparte, 1831.
Types
Nominotypical taxon [ICZN]
:
Poeciliinae
(Subfamily)
Bonaparte, 1831
Ref:
R. van der Laan et al. (eds.), 2021
: (4 Feb 2025).
[inferred]
Type
:
Poecilia
(Genus)
Bloch & Schneider, 1801
Ref:
J.S. Nelson, 2006
: 293; 30 Apr 2012.
[inferred]
Vernacular Names (Dutch)
Full name
:
levendbarende tandkarpers
Ref:
B. Grzimek (ed.), 1973-1975
Vernacular Names (English)
Full name
:
poeciliids
Ref:
R. van der Laan et al. (eds.), 2021
: (4 Feb 2025).
:
livebearers
Ref:
J.S. Nelson et al., 2016
: 378.
:
live-bearers
Ref:
T.I. Storer et al., 1979
: 685.
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