Micropoecilia is a genus of poeciliids native to fresh and brackish water from the Amazon Basin to Trinidad. While recognized as valid by FishBase, others have considered this genus as being synonymous with Poecilia.[2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cyprinodontiformes |
| Family: | Poeciliidae |
| Tribe: | Poeciliini |
| Genus: | Micropoecilia C. L. Hubbs, 1926 |
| Type species | |
| Poecilia vivipara parae Eigenmann, 1894[1]
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Species
editThere are currently four recognized species in this genus:[3]
- Micropoecilia bifurca (C. H. Eigenmann, 1909)
- Micropoecilia branneri (C. H. Eigenmann, 1894) (Branner's livebearer)
- Micropoecilia minima (W. J. E. M. Costa & Sarraf, 1997)
Related species
edit- Micropoecilia parae (C. H. Eigenmann, 1894) (Melanzona guppy)
- Micropoecilia picta (Regan, 1913) (Swamp guppy)
The type species of the genus is Micropoecilia parae[1] but this is not included within the genus by Fishbase but other workers have recovered this species within the subgenus Micropoecilia of Poecilia, arguing that Micropoecilia, alongside the subgenera Acanthophacelus, Limia, Pamphorichthys and Mollienesia should all be retained as subgenera of Poecilia, which is remains a monopyletic clade in this classification. This is partly to ensure the conserving of the guppy (Poecilia reticulata) as a species within the genus due to its familiarity as a study organism.[4]
References
edit- ^ a b Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Micropoecilia". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 6 November 2019.
- ^ Bragança, P. H. N. and W. J. E. M. Costa (2011): Poecilia sarrafae, a new poeciliid from the Paraíba and Mearim river basins, northeastern Brazil (Cyprinodontiformes: Cyprinodontoidei). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters v. 21 (no. 4) [Dec. 2010]: 369-376.
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Micropoecilia". FishBase. August 2012 version.
- ^ Robert W. Meredith; Marcelo N. Pires; David N. Reznick; Mark S. Springer (2010). "Molecular Phylogenetic Relationshipsand the evolution of the placenta in Poecilia (Micropoecilia) (Poeciliidae:Cyprinodontiformes)" (PDF). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 55 (2): 631–639. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2009.11.006. PMID 19922806.
External links
edit- Petfish.net: Description of the painted guppy
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility: Micropoecilia parae
- Zipcodezoo.com: Branner's Livebearer
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