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New World Rivulines
Rivulidae
Aplocheilidae is a family of fish in the order Cyprinodontiformes found in Africa, Asia and South America. This family-group name is well-established, making its use as a single aplocheiloid family more stable along time, besides avoiding the impact of a new name at the family rank for a popular aquarium fish group. Following this proposal, Aplocheilidae includes three subfamilies: Aplocheilinae Bleeker, 1859; Cynolebiinae Hoedeman, 1961 (= Rivulidae Myers, 1925) and Nothobranchiinae Garman, 1895.
3 branches of this family, most-observed first · about 494 known species
Typical New World Rivulines
subfamilyRivulinae
Pearl Killifishes
subfamilyCynolebiinae
Mangrove Killifishes
subfamilyKryptolebiatinae
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 86049.