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... > Eukaryota > Animals > Chordata > Vertebrates > Fishes > Smegmamorpha > Cyprinodontiformes

Preferred term

Cyprinodontiformes  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Fish, Mosquito
  • Gambusia
  • Gambusias
  • Mosquito Fish
  • Platyfish
  • Xiphophorus

Note

  • general or unspecified; prefer specifics; do not confuse with CYPRINIDAE or CYPRINIFORMES or CYPRINODON see KILLIFISHES

Scope note

  • An order of fish with eight families and numerous species of both egg-laying and livebearing fish. Families include Cyprinodontidae (egg-laying KILLIFISHES;), FUNDULIDAEl; (topminnows), Goodeidae (Mexican livebearers), Jenynsiidae (jenynsiids), Poeciliidae (livebearers), Profundulidae (Middle American killifishes), Aplocheilidae, and Rivulidae (rivulines). In the family Poeciliidae, the guppy and molly belong to the genus POECILIA.

History note

  • 1987(1975)

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D003532

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