Poecilia Bloch & Schneider

Poecilia Bloch & Schneider, 1801: 452 .

Type species: Poecilia vivipara Bloch & Schneider, 1801 . Type by subsequent designation. Gender: feminine.

Mollienesia Lesueur, 1821: 3 . Type species: Mollienesia latipinna Lesueur, 1821 . Type by monotypy. Gender: feminine.

Alazon Gistel, 1848: X. Type species: Poecilia vivipara Bloch & Schneider, 1801 . Type by being a replacement name. Gender: masculine.

Allopoecilia Hubbs, 1924: 11 . Type species: Girardinus caucanus Steindachner, 1880 . Type by original designation. Gender: feminine.

Neopoecilia Hubbs, 1924: 11 . Type species: Neopoecilia holacanthus Hubbs, 1924 . Type by original designation. Gender: feminine.

Psychropoecilia Myers, 1935: 311 . Type species: Platypoecilus dominicensis Evermann & Clark, 1906 . Type by original designation. Gender: feminine.

? Lembesseia Fowler, 1949: 267 . Type species: Lembesseia parvianalis Fowler, 1949 . Type by original designation. Gender: feminine.

Curtipenis Rivas & Myers, 1950: 289. Type species: Mollienesia elegans Trewavas, 1948 . Type by original designation. Gender: masculine.

Composition. Poecilia amazonica Garman, P. boesemani Poeser, P. butleri Jordan, P. catemaconis Miller, P. caucana (Steindachner), P. caudofasciata (Regan), P. chica Miller, P. elegans (Trewavas), P. formosa (Girard), P. gillii (Kner); P. hispaniolana Rivas, P. koperi Poeser, P. kykesis Poeser, P. koperi Poeser, P. latipinna (Lesueur), P. latipunctata Meek, P. marcellinoi Poeser, P. maylandi Meyer, P. mechthildae Meyer, Etzel & Bork, P. mexicana Steindachner, P. orri Fowler, P. petenensis Günther, P. salvatoris Regan, P. sphenops Valenciennes, P. sulphuraria (Alvarez), P. teresae Greenfield, P. vandepolli Van Lidth de Jeude, P. velifera (Regan); P. vivipara Bloch & Schneider, P. wandae Poeser, and P. zonata Nichols.

Distribution. North, Central, and South America.