Poecilia Bloch & Schneider, 1801

Dataset

GBIF Backbone Taxonomy

Rank

GENUS

Published in

Bloch, M.E.; Schneider, J.G. (1801). M.E. Blochii, Systema Ichthyologiae iconibus cx illustratum. Post obitum auctoris opus inchoatum absolvit, correxit, interpolavit Jo. Gottlob Schneider, Saxo. Berolini. Sumtibus Austoris Impressum et Bibliopolio Sanderiano Commissum. Pp i-lx + 1-584, Pls. 1-110.

Classification

kingdom

Animalia

phylum

Chordata

class

Actinopterygii

order

Cyprinodontiformes

family

Poeciliidae

genus

Poecilia

Name

Synonyms

Acanthophacelus Eigenmann, 1907

Alazon Gistel, 1848

Allopoecilia Hubbs, 1924

Curtipenis Rivas & Myers, 1950

Hubbsichthys Schultz, 1949

Lebistes De Filippi, 1861

Lembesseia Fowler, 1949

Molinesia Lesueur, 1821

Mollienesia Lesueur, 1821

Mollienisia Cuvier & Valenciennes, 1846

Neopoecilia Hubbs, 1924

Pseudolimia Poeser, 2002

Psychropoecilia Myers, 1935

Recepoecilia Whitley, 1951

Homonyms

Poecilia Bloch & Schneider, 1801

Poecilia Taczanowski, 1872

Poecilia Heinemann, 1870

Common names

livebearers in English

mollies in English

Bibliographic References

1. Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, A. L. Gardner, and W. C. Starnes, 2003: null. Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada.
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4. Bloch, M.E.; Schneider, J.G. (1801). M.E. Blochii, Systema Ichthyologiae iconibus cx illustratum. Post obitum auctoris opus inchoatum absolvit, correxit, interpolavit Jo. Gottlob Schneider, Saxo. <em>Berolini. Sumtibus Austoris Impressum et Bibliopolio Sanderiano Commissum.</em> Pp i-lx + 1-584, Pls. 1-110.
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7. Eschmeyer, William N., 1990: null. Genera of Recent Fishes. iii + 697.
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17. Nomenclator Zoologicus (auth. adjusted as per Eschmeyer)
18. SN2000/Eschmeyer, 1998
19. SN2000/Eschmeyer, 1998
20. Schrank, F. von Paula. (1802). Favna Boica : durchgedachte Geschichte der in Baiern einheimischen und zahmen Thiere. Zweiter Band. Zweiter Abtheilung. Ingolstadt: Johann Wilhelm Krüll. 412 pp.