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Typical Livebearers
Poeciliinae
The Poeciliidae are a family of freshwater fishes of the order Cyprinodontiformes, the tooth-carps, and include well-known live-bearing aquarium fish, such as the guppy, molly, platy, and swordtail. The original distribution of the family was the southeastern United States to north of Río de la Plata, Argentina, and Africa, including Madagascar. However, due to release of aquarium specimens and the widespread use of species of the genera Poecilia and Gambusia for mosquito control, poeciliids can today...
25 branches of this subfamily, most-observed first · about 273 known species
Mosquitofishes
genusGambusia
Mollies
genusPoecilia
Swordtails
genusXiphophorus
Heterandria
genusHeterandria
Pseudoxiphophorus
genusPseudoxiphophorus
Poeciliopsis
genusPoeciliopsis
Pike Killifishes
genusBelonesox
Cnesterodon
genusCnesterodon
Brachyrhaphis
genusBrachyrhaphis
Phalloceros
genusPhalloceros
Priapichthys
genusPriapichthys
Knife Livebearers
genusAlfaro
Phallichthys
genusPhallichthys
Pseudopoecilia
genusPseudopoecilia
Hiatirhaphis
genusHiatirhaphis
Xenophallus
genusXenophallus
Girardinus
genusGirardinus
Heterophallus
genusHeterophallus
Priapella
genusPriapella
Neoheterandria
genusNeoheterandria
Phalloptychus
genusPhalloptychus
Carlhubbsia
genusCarlhubbsia
Scolichthys
genusScolichthys
Phallotorynus
genusPhallotorynus
Quintana
genusQuintana
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 788516.