Poecilia latipinna ( Lesueur, 1821 )
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5357.1.1 |
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lsid:zoobank.org:pub:7CDE221A-1E73-416D-A984-23E64D9451A6 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10019222 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/D65887E4-FFB6-FF98-98C8-D21EFD0FFA25 |
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Plazi |
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Poecilia latipinna ( Lesueur, 1821 ) |
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Poecilia latipinna ( Lesueur, 1821) View in CoL [I]—Sailfin molly
Taxonomy. Original description: Mollienesia latipinna Lesueur, 1821a: 3 View in CoL , Pl. 3 [Freshwater ponds in the vicinity of New Orleans, Louisiana, USA; lectotype: MNHN B-0929].— Iraq synonyms: None.—Revisions: Miller (2006: 234).—Illustration: Miller (2006: 235, fig. 6.275); Esmaeili (2021: 313, fig. 17.19).
Status in Iraq. First record from Iraq by Kennedy (1937); confirmed by Hussain et al. (2009); Al-Faisal et al. (2014).—Iraq materials: None.
Distribution and habitat. Distribution in Iraq: Somewhere Tigris and Euphrates River drainages.—General distribution: North America: southeastern U.S.A. south to Tuxpan (Veracruz, Mexico); introduced widely elsewhere.—Habitat: This species lives in springs, lakes, and ponds; backwaters and pools of streams; drainage ditches; and salt marshes. Freshwater, brackish.
Economic importance. Valuable for the aquarium trade.
Reasons of introduction. Ornamental fish industry.
Conservation. Not relevant (introduced species).
No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.
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Poeciliinae |
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Poecilia latipinna ( Lesueur, 1821 )
| Çiçek, Erdoğan, Jawad, Laith, Eagderi, Soheil, Esmaeili, Hamid Reza, Mouludi-Saleh, Atta, Sungur, Sevil & Fricke, Ronald 2023 |
Mollienesia latipinna
| Lesueur 1821: 3 |