Poecilia sulphuraria

• Overview
• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
• More Info
• Further Reading
• Notes

Overview

Family : Poeciliids;

Critically Endangered

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Habitat

Biome: Freshwater [1].

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Mollienesia sulphuraria • Mollienesia sulphuraria Alvarez • Mollienesia sulphuraria Alvarez, 1948 • Poecilia sulphuraria

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: Data last modified by FishBase 23-Jun-1998

Similar Species

Members of the genus Poecilia

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 38 species and subspecies in this genus:

P. amates (Merry Widow Livebearer) · P. branneri (Branner's Livebearer) · P. butleri (Pacific Molly) · P. catemaconis (Catemaco Molly) · P. catenata (Northern Studfish) · P. caucana (South American Molly) · P. chica (Dwarf Medaka) · P. decemmaculata (Ten Spotted Live-Bearer) · P. dominicensis (Tiburon Peninsula Limia) · P. elegans (Elegant Molly) · P. elongata (Elongate Toothcarp) · P. formosa (Amazon Molly) · P. fusca (Freshwater Gudgeon) · P. gillii (Molly) · P. hispaniolana (Hispaniola Molly) · P. latipes (Japanese Killifish) · P. latipinna (Sailfin Mollie) · P. latipunctata (Broadspotted Molly) · P. maculatus (Balsas Molly) · P. maylandi (Balsas Molly) · P. melanogaster (Black-Bellied Limia) · P. melapleura (Striped Gambusia) · P. mexicana (Orangefin Molly) · P. mexicana mexicana (Orangefin Molly) · P. minor (Black-Barred Limia) · P. olivacea (Blackspotted Topminnow) · P. omalonota (Powder-Blue Panchax) · P. orri (Mangrove Molly) · P. petenensis (Swamp Guppies) · P. presidionis (Sinaloa Livebearer) · P. reticulata (Barbados Millions) · P. sphenops (Black Mollie) · P. spilauchena (Banded Lampeye) · P. sulphuraria (Molly Del Teapa) · P. teresae (Mountain Molly) · P. velifera (Mexican Sailfin Molly) · P. vittata (Striped Mudfish) · P. vivipara (Spotsided Livebearer)

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Further Reading

• Baillie, J. and Groombridge, B. 1996. 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. International Union for Conservation of Nature, Gland, Switzerland.
• Groombridge, B. (ed.) 1994. 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.
• Groombridge, B. (ed.). 1994. 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
• IUCN. 1990. 1990 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
• Meyer, M.K. and A.C. Radda (2000). Notes on the subgenus Mollienesia Lesueur, 1821, with a description of a new species of Poecilia Bloch and Schneider, 1801 (Cyprinodontiformes: Poeciliidae) from Venezuela. Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Wien 102B:7

Notes

Contributors

• American Fisheries Society. Common and Scientific Names of Fishes from the United states, Canada, and Mexico Sixth Edition. Special Publication 29.
• Berra, Tim M. (from FishBase).
• Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.
• Contreras-Balderas, S. & Almada-Villela, P. 1996. Poecilia sulphuraria. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 04February2012.
• Contreras-Balderas, S. and Almada-Villela, P. 1996. Poecilia sulphuraria. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. www.iucnredlist.org . Downloaded on 20 October 2006.
• FishBase 2006.
• FishBase. Release date: January 5, 2010
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 02, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from provider.
• IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
• Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 02, 2008:

• UNIBIO, IBUNAM: CNPE/Coleccion Nacional de Peces

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 135694
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Fis-31731
• Fishbase Species ID: 6220
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 647537
• IUCN ID: 234389
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 9956

Footnotes

1. Contreras-Balderas, S. & Almada-Villela, P. 1996. Poecilia sulphuraria. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 04 February 2012. [back]

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