The stippled studfish (Fundulus bifax) is a small freshwater fish which is endemic to the Tallapoosa River system in Georgia and Alabama, USA; and Sofkahatchee Creek (lower Coosa River system) in Alabama. It belongs to the genus Fundulus in the killifish and topminnow family, Fundulidae. It has been evaluated by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as "near threatened"[1] and has not been recorded in Georgia since 1990.[3]
| Stippled studfish | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cyprinodontiformes |
| Family: | Fundulidae |
| Genus: | Fundulus |
| Species: | F. bifax
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| Binomial name | |
| Fundulus bifax | |
References
edit- ^ a b NatureServe (2014). "Fundulus bifax". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2014: e.T184079A18236686. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-3.RLTS.T184079A18236686.en. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
- ^ NatureServe (3 February 2023). "Fundulus bifax". NatureServe Network Biodiversity Location Data accessed through NatureServe Explorer. Arlington, Virginia: NatureServe. Retrieved 24 February 2023.
- ^ Freeman, Byron J. (April 2016) [Originally published in 1999]. "Fundulus bifax (Cashner and Rodgers, 1988)". Georgia Biodiversity Portal. Retrieved 24 February 2023.
- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Fundulus bifax". FishBase. January 2010 version.
- "Stippled Studfish". Fishes of Alabama and the Mobile Basin. Outdoor Alabama. Retrieved 14 February 2010.
- Cashner, R.C., J.S. Rogers and J.M. Grady 1988 Fundulus bifax, a new species of the subgenus Xenisma from the Tallapoosa and Coosa river systems of Alabama and Georgia. Copeia (3):674-683. doi:10.2307/1445387.