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Poecilia latipinna
Description
** Poecilia latipinna (Lesueur, 1821).
Sailfin Molly. To 15 cm (5.9 in) TL (Moyle 2002). Native to southern Atlantic United States and Gulf of Mexico, now introduced into much of warmer Pacific Rim. In California, known from Salton Sea, Ballona Marsh (Los Angeles County), intertidal wetlands of San Diego Bay, southern California (Williams et al. 1998), and other sloughs and estuaries in Ventura, Los Angeles, and San Diego counties (Moyle 2002). Shallow marine waters and freshwaters (McEachran and Fechhelm 1998).
Notes
Published as part of Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, pp. 1-285 in Zootaxa 5053 (1) on page 97, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Poeciliidae
- Genus
- Poecilia
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Cyprinodontiformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Lesueur
- Species
- latipinna
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Poecilia latipinna (Lesueur, 1821) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Moyle, P. B. (2002) Inland Fishes of California. Revised and Expanded. University of California Press, Berkeley.
- Williams, G. D., Desmond, J. S. & Zedler, J. B. (1998) Extension of two nonindigenous fishes, Acanthogobius flavimanus and Poecilia latipinna, into San Diego Bay marsh habitats. California Fish and Game, 84, 1 - 17.
- McEachran, J. D. & Fechhelm, J. D. (1998) Fishes of the Gulf of Mexico. Volume 1. University of Texas Press, Austin.