Published February 22, 2023
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Poecilia sphenops
Description
Poecilia sphenops (Valenciennes)
(Fig. 47.)
Distribution. Lam Tsuen River (Chan, 2001; C.H. Wan, pers. comm., 2021).
Native range. Central and South America.
Remarks. Has only been recorded twice, twenty years apart. It is scarce in the wild despite its prevalence in the local aquarium trade, suggesting that it has difficulty establishing itself.
Notes
Published as part of Chan, Jeffery C. F., Tsang, Alphonse H. F., Yau, Sze-man, Hui, Tommy C. H., Lau, Anthony, Tan, Heok Hui, Low, Bi Wei, Dudgeon, David & Liew, Jia Huan, 2023, The non-native freshwater fishes of Hong Kong: diversity, distributions, and origins, pp. 128-168 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 71 on pages 150-151, DOI: 10.26107/RBZ-2023-0012, http://zenodo.org/record/7815765
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Valenciennes
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Cyprinodontiformes
- Family
- Poeciliidae
- Genus
- Poecilia
- Species
- sphenops
- Taxon rank
- species
References
- Chan BPL (2001) Sustainability and biodiversity: the impact, alternative design and prospects of restoration of channelized lowland streams in Hong Kong. Unpublished PhD Thesis. University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, pp. 169 - 211.